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parallactic

Blog Topic Mash Up

Jul 07, 2009 16:47

Sometimes it's easier to talk about things that you don't have much to say. I can talk about my opinion about Merlin, but I have a hard time blogging about Avatar: the Last Airbender because it ate my brain ( Read more... )

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wordsofastory July 8 2009, 15:43:03 UTC

Merlin:

For m/m slashy vibes, I started to be really hit by it in episode 5. But there are also extremely obvious moments in episodes 10, 11, and pretty much every one. The f/f slash is not as blatant. There are sweet moments in 10 and 12, but it mostly grows from a lot of little things over time. I would say the show is moe cracky in the sense of "endure it for the good bits" than "cracktastic goodness", so I cannot help you with that.

parallactic July 8 2009, 21:52:43 UTC

Thanks for the info. So far the show comes across as a generic cheesy fantasy series, without the heart or outrageously over the top fun that can make such a series more interesting. I'm considering skipping ahead to eps 10 and 12 to see if the show will peak my interest.

wordsofastory July 9 2009, 01:09:23 UTC

Episode ten is about Merlin and the others teaming up to save Merlin's mother's village from bandits, and is mostly light-hearted fun (though one of the bandits is randomly Middle Eastern, for some reason, but that's a fairly minor quibble for me). Also extremely gay.

12 is pretty rage inducing, particularly if you have not had the lead-up to it. It has seriously questionably morals. I would definitely not recommend for someone looking to get into the series.

5 (Lancelot shows up) and 11 (Arthur kills a unicorn, there are repercussions) might also be good ones to skip to, though I don't remember either of them being particularly femslashy. 8 (Mordred shows up) and 9 (Excalibur shows up) are more serious, but also watchable out of order.

parallactic July 9 2009, 23:54:12 UTC

That's really helpful. Thanks. :)

nola_nola July 8 2009, 18:05:16 UTC

Oh man! How did I miss that Merlin was starting on NBC? I knew it was coming this summer so I held off watching it on my computer because I was hoping to get friends/family to watch with me on my big screen. And now I see that I've missed five episodes already. Does anyone know how many episodes there are? I wonder if there will be reruns. I'd really like to start from the beginning.

parallactic July 8 2009, 21:56:24 UTC

If you want to start from the beginning, you can catch up on the eps you missed on hulu.com. I watched 1.5 eps on NBC, and 2 eps online on Hulu. I think the season is around 20 eps.