Halloween 2010

Episode 8 was amazing! There was good stuff all around.


Here you are, my comments on the whole thing...


Oh, and a Halloween poem for you all. Enjoy.

Skeletons dancing along the trip
Click the dry fingers then
Down for the dip
Spin with a creak
As the bonesaw squeaks
This is the dance of the dead.

Living things aren't found round there
Dancing in the mist of a
Crypted square
As ghosts sing a tune
To a cold Hallows moon
Wailing the dance of the dead.

Those passed things dance only for tonight
When the air is ghoulish and
The full moon is bright
When Death leads the band
With his scythe in his hand
There is the dance of the dead.







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Okay, so there were three big important things to this episode that I want to address:

1. Gwen knows about Morgana being bad. It only seems fit that in two weeks Arthur may find out, because she may be forced to tell him when Morgana decides to play another card out of her evil deck (I won't go into further detail here-if you want to know go look up 3.10's episode description on Wikipedia. Really, I wouldn't want to spoil it for you because it sounds SO good...) However, Morgana does NOT know that Gwen knows, although she must think she suspects something's going on. Her friends become less, her enemies become more. Now only Arthur and Uther are oblivious to her evil, and I don't believe Arthur will be for very much longer.

2. Merlin receives the Water of Avalon. I would assume that it would save someone from death seeing as Avalon is the land of immortality and this water is out of the LAKE. It's meant to save HER. We have no idea who HER is save that there's a crazy rumor out there that Merlin's supposed to get a sibling (I would assume it's a twin seeing as Balinor didn't hang around that long in Ealdor.) It's not Freya as she's already dead. It might be Morgana (he'd certainly change their relationship if he gave her a nice drink instead of smacking her with ceilings or slamming doors in her face and sending her flying backwards down a flight of stairs.) I don't think it's Gwen-the water is awfully precious and he's already gonna have to save Gwen in two weeks.

3. Morgana didn't kill Arthur (the shock of him STILL being alive made her drop her drink!) and her powers have taken another step up. She's now voluntarily lighting wooden boxes on fire. And voodoo doll images of Arthur. I'd put a little face on it and write PRAT and CLOTPOLE on it, but that's just me. Being evil must mean she has no imagination. I mean, last week it was a tracking ring she used, and she tried to kill Arthur. This week it was a bracelet, and guess what? SHE TRIED TO KILL ARTHUR. Maybe Merlin should just confiscate all suspicious jewelry until it's been checked over.

Someone else noted that Morgana must be cracking under the strain, because she's starting to show her true colors far more often and far more blatantly than she should be. She's getting reckless with all the failures, she's getting careless, and that is going to cost her BIG.

This was a great episode, one of the best of Merlin I've seen. It had everything-jokes, deep awesome stuff going on, Merlin eating olives at top speed, Merlin getting hiccups (how do you fake hiccups without getting them? They must teach that in drama school...)Merlin using his Dragonlord powers to cow the wyverns, him getting a quest when we all thought it was Arthur's, Gwaine causing ruckuses everywhere he went, Gwaine laughing his ass off at Merlin and Arthur's married couple routine in the tower, Gwen suspecting Morgana had gone off the deep end and deciding it was no longer her job to hide Morgana's misbehavior. And Gaius finally, finally refusing to lie to Gwen about Morgana because it wasn't going to do any good anyway.

So I would say this is the end of Gwen and Morgana's friendship. I assumed it was coming and now it has. Now for the next little while, Gwen will be spotting Morgana's misbehavior and reporting to Gaius and Merlin, which can only mean good things for Team Arthur.

Next week, another relationship disaster occurs...this time for Gaius. This show continues to trash the concept of a normal relationship for anyone, doesn't it? Think about it-Arthur hooks up with an evil fairy chick who wants him drowned just so she can go home, some floozy stupid princess, and almost marries a clumsy princess with a fairy gestating inside her since birth.

Merlin falls in love with a girl who morphs into a winged carnivorous panther at night (aren't we glad this is family show and we didn't get any bedroom scenes? THAT would have been a disaster...) and who now is a spirit possessing a lake.

Lancelot falls in love with Gwen (you KNOW that ain't gonna work out).

Uther falls for a troll. Enough said.

Morgana falls for some dude who you KNOW never gave a damn about her.

Gaius is hooking up with an old girlfriend who has chimaera issues.

Gwen and Arthur, well, if they can get past the "you're of a completely different social strata than me," they'll be fine...if Gwen doesn't decide to run off with Lancelot first.

It makes you wonder if in the magical land of Camelot if ANYONE besides Arthur is gonna get married, because if it was me, I'd forget it unless they could prove they weren't associated with fairies, flying panthers, chimaeras, or trolls...

Ta,
Bec

NOTE: I will put this far south of the rest of the stuff so that if you don't want to look you don't have to. I want to kind of detail out the rest of the episodes (there ARE only four left.)




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9: Gaius gets hooked up with a chimaera-laden chick. Merlin and him have a temporary falling out.

10. Morgana decides to tell Uther about Arthur's relationship with Gwen. Uther decides to banish Gwen and Arthur's all set to go with her, but then Morgana tells Uther that Gwen's enchanted Arthur. I just want to see the look on Uther's face when he finds out that Arthur's got the hots for a serving girl...ooh, whee...

You gotta think that Arthur's gonna wonder who told Daddy, cause Merlin, Gaius, and of course Gwen wouldn't have done it. And when he questions Gwen, well, there goes Morgana's days of quiet, unsubtle evil in the Land of Camelot...

By the way, this episode was Colin and Bradley's favorite episode to shoot. They told someone in an interview.

11. Excalibur is in the next episode, and while I thought this was the Lady of the Lake episode, apparently it's not and Freya appears in the last episode. So I don't know HOW Merlin's gonna get that sword unless he does a big swim or has help with getting it out.

12. Lancelot turns up. I believe Gwen's brother Elyan and Gwaine also turn up for some reason. They end up in the woods. I would assume that this episode is when Morgana takes the throne, probably near the end.

13. I predict the dragon will show up (because he hasn't all YEAR, not like usual) and him and Merlin will kiss and make up (so to speak.) I predict Morgana will be exposed and be forced to flee Camelot. At some point Merlin will use the Water of Avalon to save Morgana's life.

I don't know when Merlin will be aged or if it's his older self turning up to smack his younger self around the head. I haven't found any confirming of the Merlin sibling rumor and so I can't place that, either, but logically I would put them in the same episode at this point. I can't place either detail in an episode and that's why they're here at the end.

One of the four is gonna be forced to leave Camelot, possibly forever. It's just a matter of who it's gonna be, and I'm sticking with Morgana here, although Arthur spending a bit of time as Robin Hood, Prince-not-a-Thief would teach him not to be such an arrogant ass. But remember this: if Gwen goes, Arthur goes, and if Arthur goes, Merlin goes. They'll all wind up in the woods as the Happy Outlaw Camelot Troupe if they're not careful...