an exciting new low for merlin, oh yay

[carmen_lj]

Well, that was an episode of Merlin that seemed to exist purely to test how many times I can roll my eyes in forty-five minutes.

A list:

• A Gaius story.
  
  
• Not just a Gaius story, but a Gaius love story, ffs. As if there weren't enough one episode romances last year and this is his second one this year.
  
  
• No Morgana or Gwen, WTF?
  
  
• Arthur only there for Comic Relief.
  
  
• Merlin being a right twit, again. This week he decides to condem a women with magic to death without really knowing what the fuck is going on because she poisoned Uther. And, as we all know, dudes who drown babies in wells must be protected at all cost.
  
  
• Especially if they are women with magicks.
  
  
• My favourite bit was when he claimed he had "no choice" but to tell Arthur about Alice, because that's the most convincing justification ever. Actually, Merlin, you did. You could have chosen not not get her sentenced to death and it would have changed nothing, except you'd look less of a total git.
  
  
• This would all be fine, of course (actually, it wouldn't, any episode that is Mostly Gaius is not okay) if I thought for a moment the writers were deliberately having Merlin make fucked-up choices. But I don't. So it's just all rubbish. Meh. LOTS OF MEH.

On the bright side, next week's can't possibly be this bad, oh yay.

Comments

[such_heights]

... so, there's no need for me to watch this, then?

[calapine.livejournal.com]

There a couple of lines between Arthur and Merlin that were all amusing and stuff but it's nothing there hasn't been before. Other than that, no, no-one should watch it. Unless you're a bit in love with Gaius. Gaius fans might like it. If they don't mind being reminded of his collaboratory ways in the Purge. OH GOD IT WAS AWFUL. Just a big long WTF IS THIS.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

So when I said to myself "Self, should I watch Merlin or should I watch the highlights of the test match on the other channel?" I made the right choice? Good to know.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

YES. Should you want to know about the nice watchable bit: Arthur gave Merlin a friendly punch on the arm to cheer him up and it didn't work. There was predictable but amusing banter. It lasted at least TWENTY SECONDS. And then there was Everything Else. Hrmph.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Next week's trailer looked a bit more interesting, at least.

Gaius really doesn't need two episodes centered on him in one season, in my rather mean opinion. Also, I'm kinda thinking taking him out of Merlin's life might be good - he'd need a new someone to share info dump about Latest Threat To Camelot with, but if it was Gwen, at least she could tell him off every now and then.

[calapine.livejournal.com]

I remember cheering on Nimueh in the finale of the first season as I really thought he was going to cop it then and was Horribly Disappointed. He bores me, thus I hate on him. And he takes valuable time away from the shiny 0T4.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I fear this season is the last of the shiny OT4, too :( Not fear to steal time away from that.