SPOILER LINE!
So, the obvious occurs. Morgana, SMIRKING AGAIN, takes the throne in front of Uther's disbelieving eyes (and Arthur's up there on the balcony, hiding.) Gwen is missing. Gaius was found in a closet. Elyan was in the lower town, hiding. Gwain turned up in jail. Arthur took a nasty wound to the leg and is limping despite Merlin's efforts (he's not good at healing spells and needs some help.)
Merlin's got the Water of Avalon on him now so that's going to be used in the next episode, obviously, on whatever lucky dying woman he'll bestow it upon.
It seemed like everything that could have gone wrong in this episode did, at least for the good guys. Merlin was given the cup and immediately dropped the damn thing over a cliff into the hands of Cenred's army (I was chanting stupid, stupid, stupid at this point.) Morgause, thanks to a good blood donation from each of the men in her crew, has got her immortal army and no Cenred to deal with anymore (She killed him with glee on her face. He was annoying anyway.) At the moment she has the upper hand...but there's gotta be something she didn't consider.
Since we didn't see Nimueh in the previews for next week she ain't coming back (didn't think so.) How the druids wound up with the cup is beyond me seeing as the last time WE saw it it was sitting on an altar at the Isle of the Blessed (it was. I watched the episode this morning and there it was.)
Percival and Lancelot didn't turn up (next week.) Leon had a near-death experience and was nicely treated by the Druids, which made Arthur deal fairly gently (gently meaning holding one of their children hostage and never sheathing his sword the whole time he was in their presence) with them, considering the last time he met them he was under orders to kill them all.
Next week, Morgana and Morgause get the comeuppance we've been waiting for. We meet Percival (yay!) and Lancelot (again.) Gwen turns up. More people die (Gaius?) Uther cries more than Colin Morgan last series. Someone gets it at the end of a round of arrows (Leon was yelling.) Arthur's Round Table is born. And some watery tart tosses a sword at Arthur (Freya, hand, lake, Excalibur for those who haven't seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail.)
I've kind of realized that Uther has got himself in a bit of a spot. He's in his own dungeons (THERE we go. Every cast member's been in them now) and has no power and no army at his command (because most of them are dead.) All he can do is sit and wait for Arthur (who he can only hope is still alive somewhere to save him) to bust him out of jail and take him away from Camelot and the immortal knights. Uther's much worse off in the dungeons than out of them; do you think Morgana and Morgause are going to leave him alive one SECOND longer than necessary? Uther has not made himself any friends with the magic people, no sirree bob.
And there we have The Coming of Arthur (A title I HAD to snicker at when I first heard it...really?) but here's what it means. Uther has fallen, has no power and no ability to save himself. It's up to Arthur and his six guys (Merlin included there) to do what seems impossible and take back the kingdom from Morgana and her crew of evil.
I had this idea while working on my paper that had nothing to do with Merlin at all: Recall that at the end of the second episode of this series where Merlin said that nothing could ever make him as angry and bitter as Morgana appears to be. And then Arthur shouted and told him he was lazy and it was all ha ha ha like it always is at the end of an episode.
But think about this: Merlin could NEVER get that angry. Really? Nothing could ever piss him off that much? Gaius' possibly imminent death, the Dragon getting hurt, Morgana doing something to Gwen or Arthur? I think we might see Merlin get that angry...and there might be some stuff destroyed. Last time he got mad, he called down lightning, thunder, and rain in a nonverbal spell and blew Nimueh to BITS, and then he wasn't even fully "charged" yet, so to speak. Now he's a Dragonlord, with abilities far beyond his first series self. I would be ducking if I were in the vicinity of Camelot next week.
Morgana doesn't even have to do magic if she doesn't want (she's already condemned and could go whole hog if she wanted to. Guess who just gained a whole lot of beans on the credibility pile now that she's no longer whispering in Uther's crinkled old ears. Think about it-Merlin can now TELL Arthur she's got magic and not be insulting anyone IMPORTANT 'cause by next week she's probably going to be running for her life from Arthur's patrols! She is SO done in Camelot after she gets her ass kicked by Merlin, Arthur, and his band of rogue warriors of the many muscles (see attached picture for the sexy.)
From left: Sir Leon the Not Dead, Percival the Holy HANNAH He's Tall, Merlin the Extremely Gorgeous but Secret Sorcerer, Arthur, the for-the-moment not Prince of Camelot, Lancelot the Noblest of All, Elyan, Gwen's Mysterious Brother, Gwain of the Shaggy Boots.
One more episode to go and then no more for almost a year.
Ta,
Bec
PS: I want to say RIP to Leslie Nielsen, who made me laugh every damned time I watched "Airplane." (I own the movie because my dad made me watch it a hundred times as a kid.) Nobody else could have said a line three times in a row and cracked me up so much. You will be missed.
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