Six Weeks And Counting...

Not much to say about me as of late. Six weeks from this morning just past, I will walk across the stage at NCCU and get my degree. Still don't have a job. Working on it.

Meanwhile, Merlin Episode 5, "His Father's Son," aired today and I caught it.


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This was a good episode, lots going on. Pay attention:

Since this was all about Arthur, let's start with him.

Arthur-Is settling into the new job of king, and makes his first mistake by not sparing Caerleon. This prompts Mrs. Caerleon to lose her temper and come after Camelot with an army.

Um, whoops?

Arthur decides to think more with his head than his heart (he IS a cabbagehead, so this is not the best of decisions.) It makes him do these two amazingly dumb things:

Arthur decides to listen to his uncle and tries to dump Gwen.

Arthur decides he doesn't need friends and tries to dump Merlin.


BUT Arthur, thankfully comes to his senses and decides single combat is necessary...with a seven-foot Caerleon goliath.

Arthur proves with the decisions he makes that he is most certainly NOT his father's son. He is his own man, and makes his own decisions.

This is where Morgana sort of steps in, 'cause she's responsible for this fight almost not going the right way...

Morgana: Annis Caerleon judges our outlaw princess pretty well here (love ya, Lindsey Duncan! Fine performance!)Morgana is full of bitterness and unwilling to compromise. She's more like Uther than Gorlois, Annis says, and that is NOT something Morgana wants to hear, especially after saying Uther was only her blood-daddy, but she comes in honor of Gorlois, her REAL daddy. Uther was a bastard who killed her REAL daddy.

She also wants her younger half-brother dead for sleeping with her maid and for becoming king.

And she killed her half-sis earlier this year.

(Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!)

Hold on, why is she still walking around with the surname of Pendragon, then? Maybe because she wants to keep reminding people that she's supposed to be on the throne? That's probably it. She has no other reason to keep the name otherwise.

Morgana saw a golden opportunity to get rid of Arthur and tried to make his sword weigh a ton so he'd die. This backfired when the OTHER magical person in the OTHER army decided he liked Arthur alive and thwarted her plans (obvious who this is to all involved.) Merlin was probably unaware of Morgana being there but it doesn't matter. He thwarted her again.

Back to Arthur again-wins the fight, gets the parade, gets his girl back, his servant insults him. Everything normal here. He'll do OK from here on out; young bucks at a new job with a lot of pressure always make mistakes, and he fixed this one well.


Merlin-Really, really tries to advise Arthur during this episode, and we see Arthur finally, FINALLY starting to listen to his bumbling manservant a little bit (granted, it was ridiculously late and almost got Arthur killed, but whatever.) Arthur makes big strides here-he calls Merlin FRIEND! (I cried here.) and said Merlin was right (cried again.)

Best Fall of the Year is going to Colin Morgan, hands down. To trip over someone's feet and fall backwards into a tent without killing yourself is a talent that should be used.

And slash moment of the episode: Arthur apparently doesn't want to sleep with Merlin in a bed (and neither does Merlin.) That doesn't mean much. There are walls, windowsills, corners, trees, convenient mountains, the ground, either person's bedroll (does NOT count as a bed), back of a horse, the throne...

Yes, Camelot watchers: Shagging on a bed is SO Roman Empire.

(Actually, ignore those last two comments. I have no clue where those came from.)

Gwen: Backdropped again. Give that girl more than two scenes, please!

Gaius-Has NO lines. At all. Although really, what could he have said to help this situation along?

Aggie: Tries to get Arthur to break up with Gwen and almost succeeds. Hands over Arthur's sword to Morgana for eviling up. Also looks conveniently worried when he needs to, but I don't believe his expressions for a second (creep.)



So that's this week. Next week is an episode named after our dear dark-haired wizard himself. Merlin gets knocked out, Morgana gets her mitts on him and possesses him with the need to kill Arthur. Obviously it won't work because he really really likes Arthur alive.

I love how Morgana calls him a boy. Laughter. You stupid bitch. He could twitch his little finger and probably blow you to bits.

And Dragoon makes another appearance, probably to really freak out Morgana. This is going to be fun. Cannot wait to see her face, seeing as she's been having dreams about that old face of his all year...

Let her have it ALL, Merlin. Let her scream and panic and cause small explosions in fear of you, because we're all waiting for you to have enough justification to kick her ass all the way to the Isle of the Blessed.