Briefly, MORE television

[kivrin]

- I love Mozz. LOVE HIM. "Show me the warrant!" "Did you draw on my face?" "I was never here."
- I love Elizabeth.
- I... am annoyed by the gender essentialism of the Neal-Elizabeth-Peter dynamic, but it's early days, and I can be patient.
- I am amused by the thought of the show creators pondering OT3 fan catnip the way I am sure the Merlin show creators pondered slash fan catnip. Upon which topic....


MERLIN 3x1

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- I prefer smirking!Morgana to passively!terrified!Morgana, but that only meant that it took me until after the episode was over to realize that she's still pretty darn passive. She's just Morgause's errand girl. (Though there is a definite sense that she might be getting well compensated, in "hey baby, you know what ELSE we can do with a mandrake root?" way.) We better get to see her eyes flash in the next episode.

- On that note, I did like her luring Merlin into a trap, since it's a nice change from her not noticing him following her last season.

- The Merlin/Arthur gratuitous abuse was not as bad as in 2x1, because it was limited rather than the whole point of the episode, but it was still wince-y, especially the bucket bit. The part about Merlin's bottom being sore was just the showrunners having their "we don't write or play it that way" denial while eating their hoyay cake.

- Hello, Guenevere, you're looking as beautiful as ever, wish you had A SCENE or something.

- I was hoping the soaking-wet little boy would be baby!Arthur.

- I don't know how they're going to justify not offing Uther in the conclusion of the two-parter. The introduction of the murder of children takes it to such a level that I don't see how they can push the reset button, no matter how hard Bradley James and his Epic Sadface sell the Arthur-is-not-yet-ready-to-rule bill.

- Speaking of Epic Sadface, Colin Morgan is still an extremely high achiever in that area. Also, I loved Merlin saying, in defense of his new "dollop-head" insult, "It's idiomatic."