No Merlin thread?

[Guy Gardener]

Gaius probably autopsied the body to a 6th century sort of proficiency, if not just merely prepared it for burial. He's the Surgeon general right? Who else would be allowed to strip, clean and prepare the king for the after,life.

My real question is where the hells is Morganna getting her education in these things?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I was expecting Merlin to sense the amulet, but only after he had already administered the cure to Uther. What I really want to know is how Gaius determined the amulet was enchanted. What's that old man hiding?

Well we know Gaius can do magic, and he has decades of experience with these things.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah sooner or later Morgana is gonna have to sense something not quite right about Merlin!

 

[Deckerd]

Yeah sooner or later Morgana is gonna have to sense something not quite right about Merlin!

How does that work then, with her in her cave miles from the action?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Yeah sooner or later Morgana is gonna have to sense something not quite right about Merlin!

How does that work then, with her in her cave miles from the action?

She'll move in with him and we'll have a wacky odd couple episode, he's good, she's evil, can they ever make it work?

 

[Starkers]

Yeah sooner or later Morgana is gonna have to sense something not quite right about Merlin!

How does that work then, with her in her cave miles from the action?

Yeah but they do interact at times, they have been in the same place quite recently. I'm still waiting for a classic moment where she dismissively tries to fling him aside...only he just stands there and bouces it back at her!

BTW, anyone else feel they're overdoing the magically pushed away effect?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Yeah sooner or later Morgana is gonna have to sense something not quite right about Merlin!

How does that work then, with her in her cave miles from the action?

Yeah but they do interact at times, they have been in the same place quite recently. I'm still waiting for a classic moment where she dismissively tries to fling him aside...only he just stands there and bouces it back at her!

BTW, anyone else feel they're overdoing the magically pushed away effect?

Haven't got the budget for more? Notice the Dragon has only made one appearance so far this year?

 

[Starkers]

And notice he always seems to land in the same clearing!!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

And notice he always seems to land in the same clearing!!

Just like every time they go to a lake it appears to be the same one.

 

[Technobuilder]

For a show on a budget, Merlin stretches to do some pretty neat things.

I kinda feel bad for Tony Head though. Uther had to die, but Free Agents (US) was cancelled too.

Not sure I'm a fan of Mustache Twirling Uncle/Guy who's in league with Morgana. Where'd this guy suddenly pop out of with an alliance with dark magic to boot?

 

[Guy Gardener]

He hated Uthur.

Why the hell would he come back to Uthur's house for a happy reason when Uthur was vulnerable enough to murder?

 

[Deckerd]

Anyway there's no reason the ghost of Uther won't be around to advise Arthur. Everything else seems to be fair game.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

For a show on a budget, Merlin stretches to do some pretty neat things.

I kinda feel bad for Tony Head though. Uther had to die, but Free Agents (US) was cancelled too.

Not sure I'm a fan of Mustache Twirling Uncle/Guy who's in league with Morgana. Where'd this guy suddenly pop out of with an alliance with dark magic to boot?

I guess it depends on what you call "a budget". I hear it's around £800,000 an episode, which is $1.2m, which is not at all a low budget for UK TV.

 

[AJ86]

Only a twist in so far as it went against expectation, but seriously, since when did there have to be a twist for it to be considered well written?

Since, forever. If exactly what you had been told would happen, does happen, then the story is basically just going through the motions, and not worth watching. It doesn't have to be a huge Lost/True Blood style twist in the plot, but there some unexpected obstacle along the way or deviation in story is needed, there has to be something.

 

[Deckerd]

I would have said the King dying was an unexpected obstacle.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Only a twist in so far as it went against expectation, but seriously, since when did there have to be a twist for it to be considered well written?

Since, forever. If exactly what you had been told would happen, does happen, then the story is basically just going through the motions, and not worth watching. It doesn't have to be a huge Lost/True Blood style twist in the plot, but there some unexpected obstacle along the way or deviation in story is needed, there has to be something.

As has been said, the twist is that it actually happened when you expect Merlin will save him. The twist isn't in the story but in your expectations of the story.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah you can just imagine what people would be saying if Merlin had saved him..."Of course they were going to save him, this is Merlin, the show hasn't the balls to kill a character off" etc etc etc.

I guess they could have inserted something to play with expectations a little, maybe have Gwen notice the medallion and consider removing it (heaven knows it would give the girl something to do) nut on the whole I'm not sure how they could have played it differently.

I think the big twist was that Morgana didn't seem happy to have won.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Yeah you can just imagine what people would be saying if Merlin had saved him..."Of course they were going to save him, this is Merlin, the show hasn't the balls to kill a character off" etc etc etc.

I guess they could have inserted something to play with expectations a little, maybe have Gwen notice the medallion and consider removing it (heaven knows it would give the girl something to do) nut on the whole I'm not sure how they could have played it differently.

I think the big twist was that Morgana didn't seem happy to have won.

Well she did just kill her Father, the man who's raised and looked after her for most of her life. She may hate him but she did have a bond with him.

 

[AJ86]

I would have said the King dying was an unexpected obstacle.

I wouldn't. It was exactly the planned turn of events the audience had been made privy to earlier in the episode. That needn't have been the case just to see Uther die. There could have been plenty of twists in the plot to get to that point, but instead it just lazily played out exactly the way Morgana told us it would.

 

[Deckerd]

I would have said the King dying was an unexpected obstacle.

I wouldn't. It was exactly the planned turn of events the audience had been made privy to earlier in the episode. That needn't have been the case just to see Uther die. There could have been plenty of twists in the plot to get to that point, but instead it just lazily played out exactly the way Morgana told us it would.

I agree it was a pedestrian episode, plotwise, however it was hardly the end of the world either. This series is still streets better than the previous ones.