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Merlin: 5:04 Another's Sorrow
Well.. if there was any doubt at all that the producers of Merlin are set on a policy of using the bulk of this apparently final series to keep the show running exactly on the spot, I would imagine this episode has dispelled it. It was a fine action episode, by which I mean it was an all right action episode, not actually fine. What we saw were ( Read more... ) -
Merlin: 5:03 The Death Song of Uther Pendragon
I don’t know. I should probably admit that I was expecting/hoping for a different episode than the one we got, so I’m actually reviewing the wrong thing. I know too that I’m stlll wearing my Traumatised By S4 Pt 2 goggles. But I can still see that there was alot to appreciate. We were given the, now rare, treat of an episode centred almost ( Read more... ) -
Merlin: 5:02 Arthur's Bane - Part 2
So... that’s the opener done and dusted then, of what might be the last season. Aaannnd how did we all feel about it? Me… I felt …it wasn’t at all bad as an episode of a BBC family swords and dragons show at teatime (and no later). If you knew next to nothing about the past seasons, or the characters.
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Merlin: 5.01 Arthur's Bane
Oh Goddddd! I don't knowwwww. I didn't hate it; I didn't love it. I was just left kind of... stalemated by myself. On the one hand I thought some things were good; on the other I thought many things... weren't. An average day in Camelot then. About half way through I realised I'd actually absorbed the endless pre-season hype and was judging it as ( Read more... ) -
Merlin: And Here We Go Again
Almost time for a new season of Merlin and I've been nagged and bullied (Im looking at you gatepromise) to give my feelings on the spoilers I've heard. Not that I have a clue really. Anyway - lots of spoilers ahead as I ramble aimlessly on. (That's a warning btw - about both.)
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The Once and Future King?
So… the dust has settled and all that, but I’m still finding myself chatting Merlin on and off. gatepromise and I got on to the subject of Arthur - the bloke the series seems to really be about and the more I think about it, the more I feel that while Merlin as a character has been brutally ill-served by the way the show is run now, poor old Arthur is the ( Read more... ) -
Merlin: Why, Oh Why, Oh Why?
So ..Forget the packed lunch. You’ll need a tent and a weeks food shopping to plough through this Im afraid.
I’ve been having a bit of a ponder - as you do - but I’m as perplexed as ever. WTF went so wrong with S4? Why would something so good suddenly do a 180 on the spot and become well…frankly... dreadful?
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Merlin: Episode 4.13 The Sword in the Stone Part 2
Oh. Dear. Again.
It’s another rant I’m afraid. In fact its probably best to bring a foldaway chair and a packed lunch.
I'm really kind of gobsmacked by that episode. Really, there aren't enough haddock in the North Sea to do justice to my feelings about it. I suppose in a way it was perfectly representative of S4: brief, tormenting flashes of ( Read more... ) -
Merlin: Episode 4.12 The Sword in the Stone Part 1
Oh dear. I wish I could get the get the producers of this show - the Twu Lurve Obsessives I mean, not the other ones who know what they're doing - in a small room with a large bucket of haddock with which I could beat them repeatedly around the head. (Thats actually not as kinky as it sounds.) Eventually perhaps, they'd explain WTF they're thinking ( Read more... )