Usually I have stuff to say - in addition to or slight disagreement with - but I think you pretty much said it all for me, and said it so much better than I could :)
I saw elsewhere this notion that the thing with Freya was love at first sight and as I don't tend to read meta for Merlin don't know how widespread a notion that is, but I am so glad you were able to put it into the context that I (obviously) think it needs.
What I find wrt the writing on Merlin is that it is definitely layered and is never actually as shallow as it may at first appear, so surface readings never suffice. Since I like the way you read the text (I read some of your season one meta) obviously I'm going to think that you're spot on with this, but hey you are spot on. What can I say? ;)
I know you've changed your mind re Arthur knowing Merlin has Magic, but I dunno, I think he does know - on an unconscious level - and he's being protected (by his subconscious)from that knowledge so that he doesn't have to deal. It's gonna be hard to shake me from that stance since er no-one can prove that I'm wrong, right? :D ;) I think there's a lot going on with Arthur, which is somewhat masked by the stuff we SEE. The Sins of the Father was a pretty good indication of that IMO (excellent episode which shows that these guys really know what they're doing)
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Usually I have stuff to say - in addition to or slight disagreement with - but I think you pretty much said it all for me, and said it so much better than I could :)
I saw elsewhere this notion that the thing with Freya was love at first sight and as I don't tend to read meta for Merlin don't know how widespread a notion that is, but I am so glad you were able to put it into the context that I (obviously) think it needs.
What I find wrt the writing on Merlin is that it is definitely layered and is never actually as shallow as it may at first appear, so surface readings never suffice. Since I like the way you read the text (I read some of your season one meta) obviously I'm going to think that you're spot on with this, but hey you are spot on. What can I say? ;)
I know you've changed your mind re Arthur knowing Merlin has Magic, but I dunno, I think he does know - on an unconscious level - and he's being protected (by his subconscious)from that knowledge so that he doesn't have to deal. It's gonna be hard to shake me from that stance since er no-one can prove that I'm wrong, right? :D ;) I think there's a lot going on with Arthur, which is somewhat masked by the stuff we SEE. The Sins of the Father was a pretty good indication of that IMO (excellent episode which shows that these guys really know what they're doing)