Skip the hearts and flowers, skip the ivory towers

[redscharlach]

Alas, the time is upon us when every episode of Merlin brings us closer to the Big Day of Fateful Finale-dom, like some sort of semi-apocalyptic advent calendar. With the score for the series at 9 episodes down, 4 to go, here are my thoughts on

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[evasearchin]

I now can't watch Morgana without the words; "Makus Peepul Fallova" going through my head.
Instead of sighing at her seemingly limited attack skills it just gives me a chance to grin insanely every time.
Again loved your review :)

[redscharlach]

I confess, the same thing happens to me, and it makes the tedious repetitiveness of it much easier to bear!

[archaeologist_d]

Colin was amazing this week. Loved him playing a guy who doesn't know how a woman reacts to things. I fully believe that they had trouble filming it because of the giggles.

[redscharlach]

Yes, it only went to prove how little Merlin usually pays attention to women! "They're the ones in dresses who bat their eyelashes at men... and um... errr.... that's about it."

[teprometo]

the murmurings of the hardcore slash contingent who are thinking exactly the same thing GPOY

Hmm, Arthur's complaints about the indignity of pushing the Queen around in a wheelbarrow sound pretty ironic when he's got no problem with flinging unceremoniously her over a horse so she's flapping about in the breeze like a shapely sack of turnips. I KNOWWWW!

[redscharlach]

Arthur was also lucky that carrying Gwen as luggage didn't have a terrible effect on her hair. If this was real life, she'd have arrived with a huge mess of tangles, full of bits of bush and twig from the countryside along the way...

[redscharlach]

I like to put a bit of musical nostalgia into my post titles, on the off chance that someone will spot it!

[allemande]

Yes, this one was quite nice, wasn't it? And not unlike another commenter above, I also think of "Makus Peepul Fallova" whenever I see Morgana now... I even shouted it at the screen gleefully.

the hypnotic power of True Lurve (TM)
I was kind of reminded of this Voldemort quote: "Is it love again? Dumbledore's favourite solution, love?"

If I'm not mistaken, next week may be "Morgana finds out who Emrys is" week. About bloody time too if you ask me.

[redscharlach]

I'd forgotten that Voldemort quote! I fear I deleted it at the same time as all my other Potter knowledge....