Merlin 1x05

[stillane]

 Because I am sick, and should be studying, and have very little brain at the moment, I have only this to say:

1. Holy crap, it continues to get slashier. Awesome. Merlin freaking the hell out while looking for Arthur among the dead? Even more awesome. 

2. Lancelot's parents were murdered in front of him as a child, after which he immediately went on a quest to be a master swordsman, which led him to face off against the hero of the story, and eventually befriend him. Guys, Lancelot is Inigo Montoya. *adores*

3. 20thcenturyvole : haha! I've not been Jossed! Also, Gwen managed to quote a line I'd given her word for word. Eeeeexcellent. *g*

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[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* I just got home from work. The download still has an hour and a half to go. God, this show has turned me into a blithering addicted wreck all ready!

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Hee. Swift incubation period, this one.

(And oh, god. I'm comparing fandom to virology. I really, really need to be done with this class now. *headdesk*)

In case you haven't seen it yet: !!! Lancelot has chemistry with everyone, including various unnamed rocks. I predict that he will become the little black dress of this fandom. *g*

[enname.livejournal.com]

*pinches nose*

I am such an old stick in the mud, who would rather go re read T.H. White, Monmouth, or even heaven forbid, Mallory, rather than attempt to watch a television show called Merlin.

Why yes, I do feel about 100 years old.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Hee. You fuddydud, you. :P

I'm funny about remakes and reimaginings and various other re- things. If it's something that's really only been done once or twice, a remake will generally be guaranteed to piss me off. There's something about tampering with what you liked the first time around that only rarely comes out well, and the alternative is to stay painfully true to the original, which makes you go, "But, why? We already had this. Why did we need a copy of it?"

With the Arthurian stuff, though... I think it's that it's been handled differently so many times, even in source texts, that I can divorce myself from the "No! Don't mess with it!" instinct and take the new package at its own merits. In this case, those merits are not quite Oscar material, but they're damn fun. *g*

[enname.livejournal.com]

Curmudgeon more like.

I am perhaps very particular about my remakes and reimaginings of things, and quite generally almost anything that comes out of a television show I am going to run hopping and screaming in the other direction, especially lately. That is my problem with the Arthurian stuff - it is used everywhere, but very rarely is there a decent reworking of it, or integrating. Picky, picky, picky me. Oh and I have rather randomly seen two episodes of Merlin - they tried showing it over here before it was pulled.

Indeed, why do we need double copies? *coughs and mutters something about Brideshead Revisited*

[aurora]

Guys, Lancelot is Inigo Montoya.
Yessssssssss.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Hee. He so is. I kept waiting for him to turn to Uther during one of his "Honor, honor, and more honor!" speeches and say, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_la_la/]

"My name is Lance-a-lot, you killed my father, mother, and entire village, prepare to die!" omg, yes, he's totally Inigo! But I still didn't get why he wanted to be a knight of Camelot so particularly.

Merling breathing out "Arthur," and putting his hand on Arthur's chest... be still my slashy heart!

I adore this show. So. Much.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

But I still didn't get why he wanted to be a knight of Camelot so particularly.

You know, I'd have to go watch it again - oh, the hardship *g* - but I'm guessing it's either one of two things. Option A, Lancelot's from somewhere in Uther's kingdom, just not from Camelot itself. It would be the natural progression to go from want to join the knightly knight types to want to join the (somewhat) local knightly knight types. Option B, of course, is that Uther's got a rep as a badass, and so his knights do, too, just by association. We may have seen them get their collective rears kicked, but that doesn't mean everybody else know about it. Given how surprised Merlin was to find out about the fairly major "magic = beheading" rule, I'm thinking word doesn't necessarily get around too much.

Merling breathing out "Arthur," and putting his hand on Arthur's chest... be still my slashy heart!

Mine, too. I feel kind of bad, because Lancelot is damned shiny, but I'm an OTP girl by nature, and apparently I've already got one locked in in this fandom. I'm okay with that, though; the dragon's got the same one. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_la_la_la/]

Given how surprised Merlin was to find out about the fairly major "magic = beheading" rule, I'm thinking word doesn't necessarily get around too much.

Yeah, I'd agree with that, especially if Lancelot worked his entire life to become a knight of Camelot, but hadn't heard about the First Rule.

Mine, too. I feel kind of bad, because Lancelot is damned shiny, but I'm an OTP girl by nature, and apparently I've already got one locked in in this fandom. I'm okay with that, though; the dragon's got the same one. *g*

hee :) The dragon's secretly OTP-ing Arthur/Merlin! I liked Lancelot a lot, and there were certainly enough hints (some rather blatant!) of all sorts of pairings, but yeah, I've pretty much committed to the "destined" pairing :) Ep 4 was the clincher for me (wow, that one went allll the way into my favorite slash tropes!)

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Hey there, would you mind if I friended you? I stumbled across your comment in xparrot's LJ where you pointed out the incredible slashiness of NCIS and it just made me go all \o/ So, yeah! Also, Supernatural! Merlin! Atlantis! Mwa! \o/

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Heck no, friend away! I'm kind of a squeer by nature, and prone to being ridiculously gleeful about the shows (and books, and movies) I love. I used to write things, although my output is tragically small these days because of school, but I have hope I'll get back to it a little more seriously eventually.

Your icon is gorgeous, btw. It makes me want to pet him, which is admittedly not a novel impulse. *g*