Not much going on with me. Working on some stuff. I took time off from that stuff to bring you my thoughts on Episode 7 of Merlin. All after the spoiler line-enjoy.
SPOILER
It seems we're taking hints from other shows again. All we needed this week were David Caruso, a palm tree, and one of those whooshy kind of scenes where they show the stab wound and the knife going in and the damage caused and such like. IT'S...
CSI: Camelot (The Who's Baba O'Riley plays...)
It's solving the attempted assassinationS of Arthur, through evidence collected at the scene, witness statements, accusations, murder, and a little bit of Saucery!
We of course know who was doing the deeds and who did the deeds to the doer (say that five times fast): Morgana made Gwen evil, so Gwen tries to dump Arthur onto the ground and crack his skull. Then he gets jumped by two bandits. Fortunately, Arthur only damages his white shirt and the two bandits. No head injury? This is new. The head stabler almost spills the beans, so she knifes him. I actually like Gwen better when she's playing Morgana from two seasons ago, smirking to the corners of the walls and pretending to love everyone when really she wants to stab you in the eye with a letter opener.
Next, Gwen tries to henbane Arthur, and only through Merlin escaping the jail cell she put him in, running through the castle as Dragoon, changing back, escaping trouble by climbing the castle wall, and doing dragon magic in secret does Arthur survive. Morgana should be hot with rage by now-someone is THWARTING!
And Morgana needs to pay her potioneers a bit more money, because apparently this guy didn't get enough or he would have shut up when faced with King Arthur. See if she goes back to him for her tinctures next time she needs an evil lotion for her foot fungus.
This episode was actually quite good; the bad guys lose but don't get caught, the good guys aren't completely stupid, and Merlin gets to cuss out the castle cook AND do some awesome magicy things of magicness. And cry. Again. Colin Morgan is the man who can cry on a tuppence and make it look good-he had ME crying...
Gwen/Morgana are going to try again next week, and now that Merlin's onto her/them, it could get real interesting. Looks like Merlin's going to have a terrible seizure and be spitting black ooze (shouldn't have had those berries...) and maybe get dropped off a mountain. Like that will stop the Course of Justice and a Good Guys Always Win kind of plot.
But if Gwen goes to prison and gets hanged for treason, the only solution is that Arthur marry Mithian, and pronto. Should have married her in the first place, then we wouldn't be in this mess.
See you for eight next week-six more and it's over, folks!
Ta,
Bec
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