Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130214143847/@comment-4814726-20130223210515

Oh yes,Merlin and Gwen would have been awesome together. Not to mention the nice juicy tension between Arthur and Merlin when Arthur fist starts dating (or loving since they didnt exactly' date much) Would have been interesting to see if Merlin felt upset in Sweet Dreams when it is revealed that Gwen is Arthur's true love. Or would he have just been OK with it knowing that he and Gwen didn't work out?

Amorgwaine, I see what you're talking about when you feel that Arthur and kind of just started loving each other during the Once and Future Queen. But there was some build up to it. LIke The Moment of Truth when Arthur first shows humility for the first time that Gwen sees. Then what Gwen said, which Arthur seemed to hear, when Arthur was wounded by the questing beast.

But yeah, in the once and future queen, (and this is a very generalized statement made without rewatching the episode mind you) they just sort of kissed and then they were in total adoration of each other. I can't remember Gwen ever thinking of Arthur as a prat even though he did some prat worthy things, and why and how she was in love with a prat and prince.

I think in the first episode, Gwen and Arthur were set up to be as far apart from loving each other as possible in order to make the ironic connection like you mentioned when Gwen said "who'd want to marry Arthur?" And to make the progression from there to an unlikely romance.

Fimber thanks for supporting me, and also about the friendship thing I DO think that Arthur was the dominant one, after all he was a prince and master with higher status, and used to being in charge, I just don't think that having that threatened by Merlin's powerful magic was why the friendship fell apart for a while when Merlin revealed his magic. I also don't think that's why they were friends, I think that's why they were enemies to begin with. Merlin didn't like bowing to an authority, especially a prat authority, and Arthur didn't like that Merlin stood up to him. Once they got to know each other better they stopped going at each other, Arthur stopped being so much of prat, and so Merlin didn't have a reason to challenge him as much. I'm going to post a thread of my analysis of their interactions for episode one later. Then for Valiant, and so on and so on.