Thread:Ozymandias v/@comment-24691863-20140323095510/@comment-24691863-20140328090332

So now to answer your interesting post!

About the first viewing, it did take me awhile to get hooked. At first we only watched one episode a week. I don’t really remember at which point we started watching two, or even three, every evening, but I do remember that we hurried to finish Season Three before leaving for our holiday in London last summer, where we, completely by chance, saw Colin Morgan in The Tempest at the Globe. Amazing! When we came home again we rushed through Seasons 4 and 5 and then immediately had to start again. After the second time through I wrote Merlin – After. When I was done with the rough draft, I watched the whole series, all five seasons, in about a week. Now we’re waiting until we get back from London in June this summer to see it the fourth time.

So, did I like the boy Merlin from the start? Absolutely. He was funny, kind, troubled and utterly charming. Yes he was very short-sighted, impulsive and foolish many times but he always did everything in his power to turn things right again. He was only trying to be kind to Gwen and her father in 1:3, after all, and he did try to take the blame to save Gwen, but nobody believed him. And he saved her in the end. I agree with you that “The Moment of Truth” (1:10) was a very strong episode, one of the best. I also agree that Morgana just gets more and more interesting each time I see the series.

In the beginning I had the same reaction as your husband. The Camelot legend has been one of my favourites since I was a child and often in the first two or three episodes I would say, “That’s not the way it was!” The main difference of course being that Merlin and Arthur are about the same age here. But it didn’t really bother me and I soon accepted this version as just as likely as earlier ones.

Let me know when you get to Mary Stewart’s trilogy. I recently reread them (having read them when they first came out in the 60’s or 70’s). It’s very interesting but without any humour or real tragedy. It’s more of a straightforward historical novel.

That’s plenty for this time. I’m looking forward to our next exchange!

Rhuddem

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