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*

Comments

[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!)