Missing Mothers (and Sisters): More Thoughts on Female Characters on Merlin

[zahrawithaz]

Since next week's Merlin episode focuses on Morgause, it seemed a good time to post this.

Not long ago I had an idea for a Merlin vid, using a song that’s about parent-child relationships. The chorus uses the words “father” and “mother” fairly often, though, as as I started planning out clips I realized I had a problem.

Merlin puts a lot of

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[zahrawithaz]

Thanks!

That's a very intriguing quote. I love the idea of a Morgause/Morgana connection (esp if it reverses the general trend of less screen time for the female characters whenever there's a female guest star). I very much hope she won't be evil, but I'm worried, because Morgause is the chief villain in most recent retellings, and this show has a well-established evil woman fetish.

I hadn't thought of Freya being the Lady of the Lake, but it's an interesting idea. There's no Freya in the legends; it's the name of a Germanic goddess. To me it suggests another attempt to elide ethnic origins of the story; it's not the first time the show has thrown in a random reference to Anglo-Saxon history, presumably in an attempt to pave over the fact that the original Arthur legend has him defeating the English.

And I had been wondering if they were moving toward Uther being Morgana's real father, based on his conversation with Gaius after her "kidnapping" in 2.03, but making her related to Ygraine could also explain his increasingly "protective" attitude.