User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/It's NOT Arthur's Arm (also, a mistake I noticed on the diamond of the day page that needs fixing ASAP, except I don't know how)/@comment-5910167-20121230062044/@comment-5659316-20130101173601

No, the arm in The Coming of Arthur may also have been male, considering they needed an arm strong enought to lift up a sword (not a light object!), the biggest difference is that the close up was filmed differently so you couldn't see as clearly how thick the wrist was in The Coming of Arthur whereas it looks thicker in The Diamond of the dark. Oh, and its a little more tan.

That doesn't make it Arthur's arm. Yes, perhaps they could have used a more slender person's arm, but then you have to take into account that AGAIN they needed someone who was a professional diver or at least could hold their breath for a long time AND could lift the sword up. I'm afraid as romantic the notion of a beautiful lady holding out a sword from under the water is, it's probably a real witch with a B to film if you don't do it with a computer or whatever (which would have been a good idea, but look how many times they re-used shots of Kilgharrah in the series as a whole; they didn't have an unending budget for that kinda thing). The casting and filming department was not likely to be as fortunate as Philip Reeve's Myrddin and find a ten year old girl with a small but strong arm who could hold her breath for a creepy amount of time. They did their best. I too wish they had used a more lady-like hand, to avoid this debate, but that doesn't change it. What does their scripts say? That's it's Freya. So it's Freya.

'' The directors don't always have control of events, or the story despite what they may think. The story has a life of its own. ''-A few confused fans thinking it's Arthur's hand does not make the story 'have a life of it's own' or change what the writers wrote. That's as crazy as saying that if somebody added a new character to an estabished book or series in a fanfic it makes it canon. Um, no. You might as well say that Devdas didn't really die at the end of the book/movie because you "just saw a candle go out" or "just because the WRITER thought he died, and Paro thought he was dead, that doesn't mean he was dead..." Or that the Pevensies didn't really die at the end of C.S. Lewis' the last battle. Or better still! That Susan was WITH THEM and C.S. Lewis has no control over what his "reader's think" and you believe from subtext Susan was unbeknowst to her siblings and cousin also on that train! Wishful thinking and wrong asumptions doesn't change what's canon and what's not. I too wish that there were a couple of things they had done differently in Merlin's finale. For example, it bothers me that Merlin said he blamed himself for what happened to Morgana; as, in my opinon, he did everything for her and it wasn't good enough for her just because he didn't tell her he had magic and she's a bit of a spoiled brat who can't get over old grudges. But when I said that was 'uncanon', I didn't mean it LITERALLY! I know it actually HAPPENED on the show. So just because you want an arm that was protrayed by a guy's hand to be ARTHUR doesn't mean that's what actually happened on the show!