I never thought I'd analyse Merlin, until mid-S1 I suddenly did, and now I can't seem to stop. *sigh* I'm embarrassed myself, sometimes.
It's actually the first time Dollhosue really bothered me, misogyny-wise; I never thought it was much of a problem during S1. Maybe it was Echo/Caroline telling the women to kill her to in order to kill Terry... I sat there, thinking, why should she? She wasn't the one who put him into her brain. Caroline never abducted or killed anyone. Why should she die for his sins?
About the gender swap thing... I can't even say it wasn't well done, it was, Enver Gjokaj was pretty fantastic, the hair-petting was cute, but somehow and for a reason I can't quite pinpoint it totally hit my embarrassment squick. And maybe it was a little too much... having it both ways? Because for all the homophobia-is-wrong statements it's clearly still impossible to have two men kissing on the show, or even make the whole thing sexy instead of funny. But like I said, this is most likely over-interpreting...
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Date: 2009-10-11 01:58 pm (UTC)It's actually the first time Dollhosue really bothered me, misogyny-wise; I never thought it was much of a problem during S1. Maybe it was Echo/Caroline telling the women to kill her to in order to kill Terry... I sat there, thinking, why should she? She wasn't the one who put him into her brain. Caroline never abducted or killed anyone. Why should she die for his sins?
About the gender swap thing... I can't even say it wasn't well done, it was, Enver Gjokaj was pretty fantastic, the hair-petting was cute, but somehow and for a reason I can't quite pinpoint it totally hit my embarrassment squick. And maybe it was a little too much... having it both ways? Because for all the homophobia-is-wrong statements it's clearly still impossible to have two men kissing on the show, or even make the whole thing sexy instead of funny. But like I said, this is most likely over-interpreting...