Night of Awesome TV!

[thornyrose42]

So I'm in my third and final year of university now. In anthropologist terms I am reaching the end of the liminal period that is higher education and shall soon(ish) have to face the transition into adulthood and reintegration it to what some would call the real world. So I could talk about that and how actually I'm planning on taking a Masters in

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[zahrawithaz]

Although we must presume that by this point any pretence of wanting justice for other magic users has gone; along with the ability to brush her hair.

This line is just pure gold. Thank you for making me laugh after such an emotionally draining episode.

I like your comments on Gwen; she's the only character in the main cast (with the possible exception of Agravaine) for whom this is actually a happy episode. You're right that Morgana wins, but she doesn't take much pleasure in the victory.

And yeah--there goes the reset button for good.

[thornyrose42]

I like to think that its a sign that Morgana just doesn't know how to take care of herself without Gwen there to sort her out. I mean yes it looks like she's been subscribing to Evil Women Monthly but really Morgana just hasn't figured out how to apply her own make up yet. :-)

I like to imagine that Gwen, being Gwen, does her very best to comfort Arthur and be appropriately sad faced while at the castle but then does a happy dance when she gets home.

Also, I mentioned this in another LJ, but my personal head canon now is that when Morgan says that she felt Uther's pain, rather than just feeling his dying agonies, that moment of psychic connection allowed her to feel the pain that her betrayal caused him.

[zahrawithaz]

I think you're right--Morgana has never lived without servants to take care of her, and her appearance shows it. Also, if Gwen becomes queen, it's going to continue the reversal and contrast between the two of them.

my personal head canon now is that when Morgan says that she felt Uther's pain, rather than just feeling his dying agonies, that moment of psychic connection allowed her to feel the pain that her betrayal caused him.

This is a lovely and complete awesome idea!

And I love the way you describe Merlin as unable to hold back in the final scene--it really is a knockout moment, and a tremendous one on which to end.

[kathyh]

he just can't help but yell "Long Live the King!" with everyone else. The way it just bursts out of him...

I know! That moment basically killed me. My little show is all grown up!

[thornyrose42]

I still can't quite believe just how good an episode that was. I really hope that this isn't just a fluke because it really seems as if the show has finally figured out how to do what it does really well. I mean the mood whiplash in this episode should have given us all sore necks but some how it really really worked.