making it up as we go along

[inboots]

In case anyone would like to discuss Katie McGrath's SciFiChick.com Interview outside of a personal journal, here's an entry.

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[gnimaerd]

I'm generally very zen-like when it comes to shipping. I find it's not worth it to get worked up about stuff like this. If that's the way they're going to take the show, that's the way they're going to take the show and there's nothing we can do for it, save for writing more fanfic. I take comfort from two things

[heather]

1. Yeah, all I've been seeing about Arthur/Gwen is that Arthur's going to notice that she exists. Which is hardly a pastede-on romance in my book and bodes really well as far as I'm concerned, but then again I'm on board with the A/G -- as long as it's taken slowly. *shrug*

I find it hard to get worked up about this show - I'm sure Arthur and Morgana will keep having a similar dynamic to the latter half of the first season.

[gnimaerd]

yeah I think part of the reason I'm not TOO alarmed by this is that I'm not hugely bothered by Arthur/Gwen. I don't ship them, and I wouldn't care if we never saw their relationship develop on the show at all, but I'm not bothered if it DOES happen (and it's very clear at this stage that it IS going to happen, so hating that fact seems pretty pointless). As long as it doesn't overshadow Morgana and Arthur's relationship (not to mention Morgana and Gwen's), I'm not going to waist any energy disliking them. I wasn't particularly impressed by what we got by way of Gwen/Arthur interaction in the last few episodes of the first season (it felt spectacularly forced) but the Bradley James interview gave me a certain amount of reassurance that the writers are going to pace it properly

[heather]

there's plenty of room for us shippers to continue seeing the subtext, whether the writers WANT us to see sexual tension or not. (I mean, I highly doubt the writers INTENTIONALLY stick in all the subtext the Arthur/Merlin shippers love to read into the show - but that isn't stopping them, is it?)

For me that's exactly it. As long as Arthur and Morgana, and Morgana and Gwen, don't stop interacting, I'm good. Because the actors will keep bringing the subtext. And if Arthur/Gwen is done well, so much the better as far as I'm concerned. If they're going to be married I WANT them to get to know each other and interact.

But when it comes to shipping in general I've always been weird. Canon ... has never been an obstacle for me. :P

[inboots]

simply because it's such an important sticking point for setting up the legend

Well, in theory, they only have to set up one thing: how does Morgana become an enemy of Camelot? They can do this via Merlin (and Uther) or via Arthur. I find the former more likely just because he's the star of the show (and because we know trough the writers that they'll be interacting more this season). How Arthur accepts her as an enemy may not even be that much of an issue if the characters drift apart.

Which is why, while I don't think Arthur-Morgana will drop off the face of the show, I think they won't be devoting much time to it. There's no need to.

I mean, I highly doubt the writers INTENTIONALLY stick in all the subtext the Arthur/Merlin shippers love to read into the show

It's SO obvious that I doubt the thought *hasn't* crossed most of the writing staff's mind. I say this as someone who doesn't even like the pairing -- as in at all -- so I don't set out to "look" for it.