Watching Merlin
Jul. 15th, 2010 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
runespoorAm bemusedly watching the BBC's Merlin. I haven't watched past 1x10 yet.
1. Am so very, very, very in love with Morgana, as, of course, I am bound to be whenever I find yet another version of the Arthurian myth. (In retrospect, I'm not so in love with the Mists of Avalon one. Pseudo-feminist purple prose.) A witch who doesn't get married and is unhappy in love and powerful and who you should think twice before angering. *_* there is nothing not to love. This version is awesome on her own, though.
2. As of 1x10, I have determined that I am not imagining the Uther/Morgana vibes. The dinner scene? It reads everything like a seduction scene. Subtext is awesome.
3. Fuck you very much, BBC canon, for making Morgana a Seer and not a sorceress. Female = passive, male = active, amirite.
4. Giving her a sword is cute and earns you one cookie point. It's still not enough to get you back into my good books, though. Because Morgana is a sorceress, not a warrior, and you took her canon agency away from her and made two men recipients of the knowledge of what she is - they have the power to tell her or not, and they're keeping it away from her - and replaced it with something so much less meaningful to who she is.
5. So much wrong in Gaius and Merlin keeping the truth about Morgana a secret from her. So much unspeakable wrong.
6. Yay for manipulative Morgana, though! :D I so don't care it's a traditionally feminine (read: looked down upon) way of attaining power. It's awesome. It's cleverness rather than brute force, brains over brawns, it's subversive as hell and breathtakingly dangerous and again: nothing not to admire.
7. I love that she's assertive and pretty and never so much as hesitate before calling anyone out on their bullshit. Even Uther. I love that kind of character because too often she's the woman who gets called 'that bitch', and yeah, I love that character.
8. I'm not a fan of Gwen. :( That makes me unhappy, because I'm not sure whether it's because I've never been a true fan of Guinever, or because BBC Gwen is too sweet for me to really love her anyway. I like her just fine, I think she's great and all, but her character just doesn't grab me the way Morgana does.
9. Merlin and Arthur are both very strange. Very, very, very strange.
10. I can't remember whether I adored or hated Lancelot as a child - I remember having Very Strong Feelings about him, but I don't remember which way they went. >_> But shallowness won me over for BBC Lancelot. *spazzes* Though again, the deviation from backstory hurts me deeply.
11. I am slowly learning to hate the word 'destiny' beyond my previous level of utter despising of the very concept. That takes some doing.
12. Dear show: please stop showing evil magic-users. Because you know, I'm starting to see where Uther comes from. Ten episodes in, and still not on evil of the week turning out to be non-magic related? All magic users except for Merlin (and Gaius, who doesn't quite count since he basically forsake magic, and Morgana, who doesn't quite count either due to Arthurian myth and the fact that she doesn't use magic so much as she's used by it) doing evil? Not on, show. Very not on.
13. Show multiships. I am awash in delight and frolicking about in delicious oceans of UST and non-ST of all kinds. :D
1. Am so very, very, very in love with Morgana, as, of course, I am bound to be whenever I find yet another version of the Arthurian myth. (In retrospect, I'm not so in love with the Mists of Avalon one. Pseudo-feminist purple prose.) A witch who doesn't get married and is unhappy in love and powerful and who you should think twice before angering. *_* there is nothing not to love. This version is awesome on her own, though.
2. As of 1x10, I have determined that I am not imagining the Uther/Morgana vibes. The dinner scene? It reads everything like a seduction scene. Subtext is awesome.
3. Fuck you very much, BBC canon, for making Morgana a Seer and not a sorceress. Female = passive, male = active, amirite.
4. Giving her a sword is cute and earns you one cookie point. It's still not enough to get you back into my good books, though. Because Morgana is a sorceress, not a warrior, and you took her canon agency away from her and made two men recipients of the knowledge of what she is - they have the power to tell her or not, and they're keeping it away from her - and replaced it with something so much less meaningful to who she is.
5. So much wrong in Gaius and Merlin keeping the truth about Morgana a secret from her. So much unspeakable wrong.
6. Yay for manipulative Morgana, though! :D I so don't care it's a traditionally feminine (read: looked down upon) way of attaining power. It's awesome. It's cleverness rather than brute force, brains over brawns, it's subversive as hell and breathtakingly dangerous and again: nothing not to admire.
7. I love that she's assertive and pretty and never so much as hesitate before calling anyone out on their bullshit. Even Uther. I love that kind of character because too often she's the woman who gets called 'that bitch', and yeah, I love that character.
8. I'm not a fan of Gwen. :( That makes me unhappy, because I'm not sure whether it's because I've never been a true fan of Guinever, or because BBC Gwen is too sweet for me to really love her anyway. I like her just fine, I think she's great and all, but her character just doesn't grab me the way Morgana does.
9. Merlin and Arthur are both very strange. Very, very, very strange.
10. I can't remember whether I adored or hated Lancelot as a child - I remember having Very Strong Feelings about him, but I don't remember which way they went. >_> But shallowness won me over for BBC Lancelot. *spazzes* Though again, the deviation from backstory hurts me deeply.
11. I am slowly learning to hate the word 'destiny' beyond my previous level of utter despising of the very concept. That takes some doing.
12. Dear show: please stop showing evil magic-users. Because you know, I'm starting to see where Uther comes from. Ten episodes in, and still not on evil of the week turning out to be non-magic related? All magic users except for Merlin (and Gaius, who doesn't quite count since he basically forsake magic, and Morgana, who doesn't quite count either due to Arthurian myth and the fact that she doesn't use magic so much as she's used by it) doing evil? Not on, show. Very not on.
13. Show multiships. I am awash in delight and frolicking about in delicious oceans of UST and non-ST of all kinds. :D
