Merlin 3x06 and 3x07

[zahrawithaz]

3x06 and 3x07

Since I seem unlikely to catch up with the show at the current rate, I’m going to post some quick thoughts about these two episodes, which pair well together. They both make the Gwen/Arthur relationship central, boast almost equally hammy villains, and build on the new moral alignments of Merlin and Morgana from the opening episodes (

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[heather]

*bounces around* Gwen stuff! I will be back later to ramble all over this post - these are two of my fave episodes, PREDICTABLY. I may or may not have been waiting for you to get here.

[emei]

Okay, unrealpolitik is my new favourite word. *adopts it

[heather]

*back again* 3x06

[utterlunacy]

Great stuff, as always. As for the unrealpolitik, and the question of whether Arthur should expect to be married off or no - I think I can handwave that now. Uther's boast that he won Camelot rather than inherited it, and glimpses of rulers like Cenred (more bandit king than courtly liege lord), and the constant mention of mercenaries, these all make me think of Albion as a land of newly carved-out kingdoms, freshly settled by warlords and successful mercenaries who then put on a veneer of nobility in an attempt to justify their right to rule

[bana05]

You give the best episode metas. I enjoy reading them!