Comments | evadne_fenn: Rex quondam, etc., etc.

evadne_fenn

Rex quondam, etc., etc.

Jan 23, 2009 15:01

I did, as I usually do, what the internet told me, and I watched Merlin, and it was pretty damn delightful.

( Incredibly, unbelievably tl;dr on Merlin. )

rambling, merlin

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chickenpattysan January 24 2009, 02:10:04 UTC

Damn, I thought maybe you were gonna talk about the TV movie w/ Helena Bonham Carter. I know nothing about the show. :(

evadne_fenn January 24 2009, 02:17:48 UTC

HAHAHA. No, but I definitely did see that. ILU Sam Neill.

chickenpattysan January 24 2009, 03:04:39 UTC

I had the hugest crush on Jason Done after watching that movie, man. I may or may not own it on VHS.

evadne_fenn January 24 2009, 03:06:46 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Dude, I thought I was the only one who remembered that shit.

pynelyf February 6 2009, 01:10:21 UTC

I'm not sure about the race stuff, especially the miscegenation--I know you're saying that the show is not doing it consciously, but I don't think it's doing it at all really. I mean, Lancelot seems to have sexual tension with *everyone*. I know that's not a very profound rebuttal, but I guess what I mean to get at is that one of the interesting points of the show is that it explores the erotics with just about every set of characters, so that where the Arthur mythos has the famous triad, what the show ends up with is a rather complex polygon with everyone linked by some sort of erotic and it doesn't really take the time to hierarchize them ( ... )

evadne_fenn February 6 2009, 03:15:51 UTC

I suppose I'm thinking of the very intense scene where Gwen tells Lancelot that she doesn't want him to go (something like that--I'm not remembering it very well)--I'd say that they're definitely hinting at the Gwen/Lancelot pairing more than Lancelot with anyone else at this point, but that it's largely a function of 1) Lancelot being around for only one episode and 2) the show having little to no idea what to do with Gwen, even though she's technically the third lead, so they just give her a little bit of everything to do. The show plays around with what we know as the "canon" Arthur story, both teasing us with what we "know" is going to happen and with its near-impossibility within the parameters the show has established (like Gwen being queen; oddly, the Arthur/Gwen relationship is probably the least eroticized on the show ( ... )