Could we talk for a minute about how, in this universe, magic = otherness = gay? YES. I have been thinking this since the first episode, Soph! And seriously, with lines like the closet, I think the writers totally see the parallel and are running with it. ;) In some ways it's an interesting/ironic parallel to be drawing, because the person Merlin is most afraid of revealing his magic to is the person he has the most magic with.
I seriously agree with pretty much everything you've said here. ESPECIALLY THE KICKASS WOMEN FIGHTING, YES. Awesome. Morgana's 'hey I can fight, y'all' did come out of left field a little for me, but maybe I missed/forgot a previous reference to it.
I liked how Arthur/Gwen was all hinty. I see Gwen as being wooed by a pretty face, kind of. She hasn't ~given her heart~ and she's easily swayed into crushing on someone? With Merlin, with Lancelot, with Arthur. But Lancelot is the only one thus far to have really rated her, in terms of fancying and valuing her?
SERIOUSLY ARTHUR WHAT DID A UNICORN EVER DO TO YOU? DID YOU HAVE A DISTURBING EXPERIENCE AS A CHILD? (I don't think I want the answer to that question.)
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Date: 2008-11-24 12:05 am (UTC)YES. I have been thinking this since the first episode, Soph! And seriously, with lines like the closet, I think the writers totally see the parallel and are running with it. ;) In some ways it's an interesting/ironic parallel to be drawing, because the person Merlin is most afraid of revealing his magic to is the person he has the most magic with.
I seriously agree with pretty much everything you've said here. ESPECIALLY THE KICKASS WOMEN FIGHTING, YES. Awesome. Morgana's 'hey I can fight, y'all' did come out of left field a little for me, but maybe I missed/forgot a previous reference to it.
I liked how Arthur/Gwen was all hinty. I see Gwen as being wooed by a pretty face, kind of. She hasn't ~given her heart~ and she's easily swayed into crushing on someone? With Merlin, with Lancelot, with Arthur. But Lancelot is the only one thus far to have really rated her, in terms of fancying and valuing her?
SERIOUSLY ARTHUR WHAT DID A UNICORN EVER DO TO YOU? DID YOU HAVE A DISTURBING EXPERIENCE AS A CHILD? (I don't think I want the answer to that question.)