Angel and Katie Interview at the Expo:

[gnimaerd]

Adorable interview with Katie and Angel at the Expo - I think between the Q&A and the signing. The question Angel mentions being asked is the one I asked her. ^_^

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[gnimaerd]

Yeah, that's part of the problem - this is very well meaning sexism. Johnny Capps honestly strikes me as nice guy who knows his work well - but he's made a career in an industry that thrives on pushing the status quo, and the status quo with child-oriented, family-friendly tea-time programming is that it needs to be all about the boys. I'm sure the guy doesn't REALISE quite how this sounds - the fact that Katie and Angel take it like they do, with sardonic good humour, suggests that they KNOW he doesn't mean anything by it, even if they're probably a little frustrated with that attitude.

But it's just... ugh, it's frustrating. The show may be called 'Merlin' but we HAVE had plenty of episodes that don't feature him in a central role (2x04 immediately springs to mind). The writers aren't afraid to sideline him in the name of pushing major development for the other characters. So there IS no good reason that Gwen and Morgana CAN'T have just ONE episode that focuses on their relationship. The legends themselves DO often have an angle on Guinevere and Morgan Le Fay's rivalry - there is PLENTY of scope to translate that into the show and explore it. But they wont even ENTERTAIN the idea here, because they don't think that the audience would be interested in a plot that revolves around the female leads.

[fiiishy]

lol that was you who asked that? Thats so cool you're like famous kinda X-D

I agree with everything above except that I'm a little more optimistic thinking we will be getting a morgana/gwen episode. This was just a couple minutes on the topic whereas I'm sure lots more time has been spent talking (mudwrestling joke-free) about this amongst the...episode-maker-people. In this interview it might seem like a brush-off, but I dont think that's always the case at all. This interview was very light and full of them just joking around, so I'm not reading too deep into it.

Also, I suck at understanding these accents (except Katie's lol) can someone tell me what Angel says after katie says she wants to be Uther??? They start giggling and teasing afterward and its KILLING me that I dunno what she said. I can understand Gwen on the show with a little effort on my part, but Angel in real life speaks different somehow and I never get what shes saying the first like, 2 or 3 times D-:

[heather]

She says something like "what; are you saying you think Anthony's a Queen?"

Then Katie says, "that's not what I'M saying, but that's what YOU'RE saying", and something else I can't make out. ;)