Thanks! I am slowly but surely posting episode reviews as I work through, though in some cases (I just saw the Gwaine episode) it's hard to resist the temptation to just link to your reaction and say THIS.
Yes, I think so too (and wrote the fanfiction to prove it), but remember when we were in a minority there?
Yes, I remember vividly (and discovered your LJ through that fanfiction)! And I am totally not sitting here gloating about how I knew that theory long before it ever went pop and hit the charts; that would be unbecoming. I'm just trying on some of Morgana's recent facial expressions, that's all.
Seriously, I do find it interesting to see how Morgana's current behavior casts her previous relationships in different lights, especially re Arthur and Gwen. She's always been manipulative in a way that suggests insecurity, but now I wonder how much her kindness to Gwen was based on noblesse oblige, and whether the idea that she would eventually marry Arthur and be queen might have helped give her a sense of security and belonging. In other words, I'm curious how much those relationships were tied to power on her part, and whether they can't withstand her own sense of being marginal and needing to take power however she can. (She's certainly more interested in being queen than I ever expected before.)
Even so, the way she's gone to viewing Arthur solely as an obstacle is chilling. For all the reasons you mention, I can't see 1x08 as the turning point for that, but I could see it for 2x03 (with the added complication that of course he's trying to rescue Morgana, and she lies and tells him the druids kidnapped her, reinforcing his behavior).
Your point that we haven't yet seen her sacrifice anything for Morgause is well-taken, though I think the panic on her face when her sister crumbled suggested some feeling. As you note, she doesn't yet seem willing to face the consequences of making her opposition to Uther known to Arthur and Gwen, and that does not reflect well on her. And I completely agree on the either/or thinking, as you well know.
And you can see the future Camelot forming around her, Merlin and Arthur, with all three being important cornerstones.
Yes, the way these three work together is a great pleasure to watch. And I've been pleasantly surprised so far at how much more naturally central Gwen seems to the forming of the Round Table and a new kind of Camelot--I hope it keeps up!
Yes, I think so too (and wrote the fanfiction to prove it), but remember when we were in a minority there?
Yes, I remember vividly (and discovered your LJ through that fanfiction)! And I am totally not sitting here gloating about how I knew that theory long before it ever went pop and hit the charts; that would be unbecoming. I'm just trying on some of Morgana's recent facial expressions, that's all.
Seriously, I do find it interesting to see how Morgana's current behavior casts her previous relationships in different lights, especially re Arthur and Gwen. She's always been manipulative in a way that suggests insecurity, but now I wonder how much her kindness to Gwen was based on noblesse oblige, and whether the idea that she would eventually marry Arthur and be queen might have helped give her a sense of security and belonging. In other words, I'm curious how much those relationships were tied to power on her part, and whether they can't withstand her own sense of being marginal and needing to take power however she can. (She's certainly more interested in being queen than I ever expected before.)
Even so, the way she's gone to viewing Arthur solely as an obstacle is chilling. For all the reasons you mention, I can't see 1x08 as the turning point for that, but I could see it for 2x03 (with the added complication that of course he's trying to rescue Morgana, and she lies and tells him the druids kidnapped her, reinforcing his behavior).
Your point that we haven't yet seen her sacrifice anything for Morgause is well-taken, though I think the panic on her face when her sister crumbled suggested some feeling. As you note, she doesn't yet seem willing to face the consequences of making her opposition to Uther known to Arthur and Gwen, and that does not reflect well on her. And I completely agree on the either/or thinking, as you well know.
And you can see the future Camelot forming around her, Merlin and Arthur, with all three being important cornerstones.
Yes, the way these three work together is a great pleasure to watch. And I've been pleasantly surprised so far at how much more naturally central Gwen seems to the forming of the Round Table and a new kind of Camelot--I hope it keeps up!
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