Comments | marindamar: “You’ve lost that loving feeling” aka my thoughts on Merlin 4x10

marindamar

“You’ve lost that loving feeling” aka my thoughts on Merlin 4x10

Dec 04, 2011 06:29

I don’t know, you guys. This is the 3rd episode in a row that leaves me more “meh” than “YAY!!!”, and this close to the end of the season, that’s NOT ON! Especially not after the great start we had.

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merlin; merlin/arthur; episode review

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archaeologist_d December 4 2011, 21:48:40 UTC

I think they didn't give us any tease on the reveal because they'd already done it earlier with Arthur promising to not go after the Druids. Any more would have been overkill, imo.

Bradley has done such a good job this year. Meaty material and he's really brilliant at it.

marindamar December 5 2011, 01:18:54 UTC

I don't know - if the tease would have been very, very subtle, it could have rounded up things nicely and made those last scenes of the ep carry even more emotional weight. I was thinking about something along the lines of Arthur and Gaius' talk at the end of "The secret sharer": Gaius *finally* speaking up about Dragoon and about there being magical people out there who believe in Arthur and have done a lot for him, and Arthur really looking like he was starting to consider this possibility ( ... )

bluebeeangel December 5 2011, 12:22:02 UTC

Yeah last week was tainted for me too. It was a very well made episode and I actually liked it in some ways a lot more that the bore-fest of Lamia, but the Enchanted!Gwen and Dead!Lancelot did make my blood boil ( ... )

marindamar December 5 2011, 18:06:02 UTC

Yeah last week was tainted for me too. (snip) the Enchanted!Gwen and Dead!Lancelot did make my blood boil.I don’t even know why I reacted so violently to last week’s ep. I never cared that much about Lance (except for him being such a woobie around Merlin - I really, really loved their interactions and open talks) or the Gwen and Lancelot… thing. I never bought the “it’s tru wuv” bit (they barely spoke when they first met, he was her ticket to freedom when they met again under very dramatic circumstances, and suddenly he’s her “first love”? Oh, please), so I wasn’t as bothered with them upsetting their supposed love story as other people. I guess I had the biggest problem with the fact that, once again, they used a completely fabricated and contrived “conflict” to create needless drama and give Gwen a storyline that we could easily have done without. As if there aren’t enough things she should be struggling with already, like the fact that it will take a lot of adjustment for her to become a queen in fact, not in name only - she’ll ( ... )