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What I thought was proper for battle, I see now is proper for love

Oct 09, 2011 03:45

Time for Merlin again, and given this show's record with historical and scientific accuracy, it's no shock that down Camelot way, the Darkest Hour not only comes before the dawn but somehow lasts for a total of 90 minutes. ( And some thoughts about The Darkest Hour (Part II) are under this cut... )

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artekka October 9 2011, 03:30:20 UTC

rofl
I laughed for a good minute straight about that Gwaine picture...

Morgana's attempt on Gwen's life was pretty weak, even for her. I'm interested in the fact that Agravaine looks like he's considering strangling her himself and then... chickens out? Remembers Morgana's gone on a field trip to Camelot for the sole purpose of killing Gwen herself? What was going on there?

What bothered me about the Lancelot Vilia scene is, if the Vilia are what I think they are (IE the "wilis" of "Giselle" and the "veela" of Harry Potter) they are NOT GOOD SPIRITS. They can be very BAD spirits. Especially if you happen to be a bloke. In "Giselle" in particular they are vengeful ghosts of wronged women who dance men to a state of exhaustion and then DROWN THEM IN THOSE LAKES. Besides, they're Slavic, not British. But of course, that didn't stop them with the serkit, did it? :P

elethe October 9 2011, 08:31:23 UTC

Maybe they have decided to be more equal opportunities and protect anyone who is the 'wronged' party in a love quadrangle.

redscharlach October 9 2011, 22:29:26 UTC

Yes, I noticed Agravaine's fingers making a tentative grab for Gwen's neck and then him thinking better of it, and wondered what that was all about. Maybe he's doing a 12-step programme with Stranglers Anonymous and decided that this one would be hard to explain at his next meeting?

helva2260 October 10 2011, 12:39:48 UTC

In fairness, that same article says slightly further up the page that they are also known to sometimes help people (and I got there from a search about Vilia in British mythology, even though the article makes no reference to it in favoir of concentrating on the more well-known Slavic variants). I'm willing to give them a pass on that one on the basis that most of the mythological peoples are neutral at best rather than being outright good or bad.

(My own pet peeve is Freya - why did they have to have a giant winged cat from Norse mythology and give it an Egyptian name? Couldn't they have just used the Cat Sidhe?)

artekka October 10 2011, 13:05:05 UTC

true.

whoa, that cat sidhe is awesome! why haven't i heard of this before?? lol

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