yes, it's that time again
There is only really one way I can describe this week's episode and it is this: GAY GAY GAY SO FECKING GAYYYYY.
So, it was a little bit flimsy this week, particularly after the joy that was "Moment of Truth" but it did provide a nice little look at exactly what constitutes Merlin & Arthur's relationship: on the surface all bluster and casual insults but deeper down an intrinsic sense of trust and a complete, unthinking willingness to sacrifice their own lives for the sake of the other. This must be what the Slash Dragon persists in calling "destiny".
However, everytime I see a unicorn now I immediately jump to Guildenstern's speech in RosnGuil are Dead:
Guil: A man breaking his journey between one place and another at a third place of no name, character, population or significance, sees a unicorn cross his path and disappear. That in itself is startling, but there are precedents for mystical encounters of various kinds or, to be less extreme, a choice of persuasions to put it down to fancy; until - "My God," says a second man, "I must be dreaming, I thought I saw a unicorn." At which point, a dimension is added that makes the experiance as alarming as it will ever be. A third witness, you understand, adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner, and a fourth thinner still, and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality, the name we give to the common experiance... "Look, look!" recites the crowd. "A horse with an arrow in its forehead! It must have been mistaken for a deer."
and can't take it seriously. Or, at least, can't take it as seriously as a unicorn popping up unexpectedly can be taken.
ALSO "Arthur was willing to sacrifice his life to save yours. He has proven what is truly in his heart" ie. he has a MASSIVE BONER for a certain weedy wizard with sticky-out ears.
ALSO ALSO was the HUGE Princess Bride rip-off intentional? "Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me." etc etc THEY EVEN INCLUDED THE "HEY WHAT IS THAT BEHIND YOU?!?!" BLUFF. Good grief.
I am still madly in love with Bradley James and his inconcievably (ha) elastic face. He has the most amazing facial expressions I have ever seen.
Next week: alchemy! murder plots! treason! oh my!