I’ve been holding the vast majority of my comments on the current BBC Saturday night ‘family entertainment’ travesty until the end of the current series.  But honestly, it’s getting harder and harder to bite my tongue.  In the meantime, I’ve been amusing myself by looking at the viewing figures that the ever-informative Gealach-Ros has been posting ( Read more... )

Dear fellow MMRU members ( Read more... )

OK, I should be packing cos I'm on a plane in 6 1/2hrs...but What The HELLLLLLLL!!!!!!!  Click the link to read...

[Click to Open Spoilers / angry venting...]Magic-sucking slug - oh yeah, another DEM cos they couldn't find a more realistic way to handicap Merlin.  Really!?! Though I actually like Morgana in this scene...for some reason.  And hey, Mordreds chainmail is suddenly black?  Who ( Read more... )

We're screaming towards the inevitably traumatic ending.  There are plenty of opportunities to exercise the negativity in various live journal discussions (and I'll admit I've dived in head long and with passion in the criticism / critiqueing - it's just too easy, and it's great as a pressure valve).  So I thought I should try and balance all that ( Read more... )

So, I've just read some incontrovertable 'spoilers' for 513, from a source that is reputable and has, apparently, not be wrong in the past.  As such, I'm ditching my 'positivity' for a while, to post this.

For any of the UK viewers who have the energy or desire to lodge a complaint to the BBC after this debacle is over, here are the pertinent ( Read more... )

Ok, not totally hating the episode ( Read more... )

I have a couple of posts that I'm trying to put up before tonights episode airs, because I speculate that I may lose the will to live - or rather to contribute anything positive on the subject of Merlin - in about 3hrs 30mins.  So here's the first semi-positive comment from me - it's more of a hope, albeit it one I'm sure is in vain.


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Since I started the entry below this on 10th Dec, we've been deluged by a load of teasers, some of which are duplications and some seem directly linked.  There have even been and even some 'spoiler-free' reviews.  Instead of editing the other entry, I've decided to just bring them all together here.  If you want  to see specifically which site said ( Read more... )

OK, so the teasers for the next episode have started to appear on various websites.  Here's the list so far, with some speculations on my part (or just plain snark) :

[Potential Spoilers (click to open)]
Cultbox.co.uk offers the following, all dialogue teasers :

"I'm the best tracker here!"Percival? Or Gwaine - in reference to tracking the nearest tavern? (I miss the good old days ( Read more... )

Spoilers all over these comments, so don't click the link below if you want to avoid them...

What did I get from this episode???

[Spoiler ahead...]Merlin/Arthur banter, albeit drapped around a number of Arwen scenes (just to remind everyone, lest we forget, that Gwen is back on the good side and everything is hunky dory in Arwen-land, no Gwen guilt in sight ( Read more... )