Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130727145913/@comment-4814726-20130728081113

Hello everybody, no I didn't die. I've just been trying to get over Merlin, because I'm still traumatized, and I can barely watch the show. So I've just been going over all the discussions on the season 2 episodes, and I just felt really amused during the one on Sins of the Father. Because now I'm mainly a Whovian, since that show's still going, (even though Matt Smith is going to die this Christmas and be replaced by another doctor, I swear to God what is it with the BBC and ruining Christmas? Seriously.) Anyway I was trying and failing to follow the discussion about whether Morgana and Morgause were sisters, and I thought "Doctor Who is easier to understand than this!"

In Doctor Who, the Doctor gets shot by his wife, twice. Said shooting is witnessed by his wife, who is standing next to the Doctor's best friend Amy, who is also pregnant at the time. WITH HIS WIFE. After he is shot, the Doctor's wife proceeds to walk into the ocean wearing a space suit, while being pursued and shot at by, you guessed it, the doctor's wife. So there were three different versions of his wife who were in different stages of their lives all witnessing the doctor's death at the same time in the same place.

At the end of this episode, it is revealed that the Doctor is perfectly alive and healthy, because his wife actually shot a robotic time traveling robot that can shape-shift, while the doctor was miniaturized and inside piloting it.

This is easier for me to understand than the plot line of Merlin.

So I beseech you, and I beseech the BBC, and I beseech God, am I using the word 'beseech' correctly? And why am I still obsessed with this show???? And why am I up so late... early..?

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Anyway, that's me back. For now. And this episode,  is painful for me on so many levels.

I am mad at Merlin for poisoning Morgana, but I feel so sad for him because no matter what he has just lost a friend, and it was his actions, no matter the motive or the circumstances, that caused that. So I'm extremely mad at the dragon, and he hasn't even gone on his rampage yet. I'm sad for Morgana, and mad at the circumstances she was put in. Because it wasn't her fault. Not really. She had no idea what was going on. Yes, she wanted to kill Uther, yes she hated him, but so would I! I mean, I'd want to kill him, but I don't think I would. In this episode I don't think Morgana knew that the meeting in the woods would mean she was playing an integral part in overthrowing the kingdom, she didn't set out to kill anybody, even though she wanted to kill Uther. There's a big difference between wanting to kill and actually killing.

I was disappointed that Uther wasn't dressed as a woman, but I was gratified by Merlin's wise cracks at his expense, mainly "His legs aren't the problem." as he and Arthur literally drag Uther's a** across the floor.

There was some good here. I enjoyed the battle scenes and the little bromance between Arthur and Merlin as they fight for their lives. And I really did enjoy Merlin confronting Morgause. Even though he set out to kill Morgana by poisoning her, this made up for it at least a bit. He saved her life, even though he wouldn't do it until Camelot was safe.

Would it have been different if Merlin had told Morgana what was going on? I think so. She might have even drunk the poison herself. The opposite turn of events would have been her fighting and refusing to die, as most people would do. But Morgana was very prideful, so maybe her pride and her conscience combined would not have allowed the city to perish because she was too weak to do what had to be done. Who knows?

The one scene that seriously bugged me was when Merlin left Morgana to be turned into a shish-ka-bob by the knight of Medhir, I hate that scene. I despise it with all my being. Even though I understand what was going though his head then. He wanted Morgana to die without him being directly responsible, I get it. He was scared and desperate. But come on!