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Merlin series 5

So this episode was okay again but horribly predictable and Arthur being so completely retarded that he can't even put his clothes on is just ridiculous at this point (and ripped off from George in Blackadder the Third.)

At least the white dragon's in it next week.
 
With only reading Wacky's first commentary on the series opener, I can already tell I'm in for A LOT more campy nonsense.

However, riddle me this: what the fuck is with the whole gay thing between Arthur and Merlin. I just don't see it. They're portrayed as very heavily hetero men, but there's tons of fanfic girls schlicking to them boffing eachother all over the web. What gives?

They're straight. Maybe a bit on the metro or bi side, but certainly not nearly as gay as what we find on any random google search.
 
Ultimately we all see what we want to see. But you have to admit the show does play up the awkward moments between them -- what those moments are filled with is up to the viewer. And the show is happy for viewers to have a variety of reactions.

About this week's: This show suffers from an age-old storytelling problem: The villains are unbelievably evil, and their deepest desires is to see the heroes dead, but the writers set them up in situations where they could easily finish the job, but they don't. Merlin should be dead from Morgana's trap, period. And she shold have killed the boy after handing him the money rather than expect him to keep her secrets. Also, Merlin was hobbling around the castle upon returning, and yet he and the boy made it back in record time. Oh, and the boy had one little stab wound -- Merlin couldn't have fixed it up right there, and simply wiped his memory to keep his secret?

Maybe the show's plotting was always this clumsy, but I don't remember it being quite this sloppy.
 
No, there are plenty of cases when Merlin, Arthur, Gwen, ALL OF THE KNIGHTS, and everyone else of any importance should have died.

They do fall victim to the whole overconfident super villain thing.

Bad guy: Ha! Now I have you trapped in my complicatedtrapdevicewithalongstupidname. Your fate is sealed.
Good guy: You'll never get away with this evildoer!
Bad guy: Of course I will. Just to make sure of it, I'm going to leave you in an easily-escapable yet highly improbably scenario, leave, and hope it all gets done while I'm not in the room, because blood is gross.
Good guy: (escapes)

Even Mike Myers made fun of this shit in Austin Powers with regards to the Bond villains always coming up with more elaborate ways to NOT actually kill Bond: Blofeld's pirahnas, Goldfinger's laser, and every SPECTRE gadget EVER.
 
The only stuff I liked in this episode was the description of Morgana in the hole as the dragon got bigger, the slight increase in Gaius scenes and a few bits of Gwen acting. Oh and Arthur saying how much he loved Gwen's big eyes as her breasts heaved in his face.

It was obvious from the getgo what was up with the boy so that was just boring.

I still look forward to the show, though. The acting is usually pretty good, the dialogue can be very well written in places even when the actual plot is stupid, and it's always very nicely shot.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
I still look forward to the show, though. The acting is usually pretty good, the dialogue can be very well written in places even when the actual plot is stupid, and it's always very nicely shot.
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Yeah that's how I feel about it too -- sometimes I forget that I like some shows despite their flaws, and I start critiquing them as if they're Mad Men, lol.
 
Yeah, Merlin is dinner theater. Trying to be serious about it is missing the whole point. It was campy from the beginning and it is supposed to be silly. However, if you hear characters calling eachother turniphead on Mad Men, you'd probably do a double-take.
 
I liked when the name "JOHN SHRAPNEL" appeared on screen at the start because surely that's a made up name.
 
SHIT!

Well now they have to spend an episode with all kinds of gayboysexysex shit between Arthur and Merlin -- after which Arthur wakes up from his dreams and is all freaked out.

Maybe it finally triggers a wedding.
 
The end is a tit wank off between Gwen (Arthur) and Morgana (Merlin)

Arthur spooojes first and wins the kingdom.
 
Maybe all the cast will join True Blood like the Robin Hood cast did (EVEN AMANDA REDMAN'S SON JOE, EH HEADVOID.)
 
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