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I never got on the Merlin train back in the day. Maybe I was too busy reading the Star Trek XI kink meme (oh what a good kink meme that was!). And then, well, Inception. A whole show seemed like a lot of investment for reading some fic.
But hey, now I'm looking for something new to watch that's on Netflix! Steam cut me off from video games because my laptop's too ancient so I need something else to do in my downtime around the holidays in between breaks of doing stuff around the house! And there Merlin is!
Reflections after season 1, the good:
The bad:
And now I will enjoy the lovely results of "Tags: Merlin (TV) Complete revised at: > 105 months sort by: kudos descending"
But hey, now I'm looking for something new to watch that's on Netflix! Steam cut me off from video games because my laptop's too ancient so I need something else to do in my downtime around the holidays in between breaks of doing stuff around the house! And there Merlin is!
Reflections after season 1, the good:
- Reasonable length seasons, not like the interminable forever of some US shows
- That "I could take you apart with one blow" exchange was... in the first episode? Iconic
- Is ~~magic~~ a metaphor for queer? Did you know that the designer of the original Pride flag gave meanings to each of the colors, and turquoise was "magic" and pink was "sex," but for ease of manufacturing both those colors ended up being taken out of the flags that were mass produced and do you ever think of that and get sad?
- Men are allowed to have chest hair on this show
- Villagers in the background of crowd scenes are always carrying around bundles of twigs. I noticed this because I'm also on an English willow basketry kick at the moment, so it's funny but we do see a lot of baskets in the merchant areas so maybe they really are just... making a fuckton of baskets...?
- Really intense BFFs is my jam, my heart, my home country of shipping
- Lots of fun stuff to play with around the whole servant thing
- I'm not into Arthurian mythos enough to be annoyed about any of their choices with that
The bad:
- Two white dudes
- Whole structure of the show around a monarchy means that bringing in my kind of politics makes for a very resistant reading. I expect lots of fic playing on the royalty/servant power dynamic and not much on the power structures of the society as a whole
And now I will enjoy the lovely results of "Tags: Merlin (TV) Complete revised at: > 105 months sort by: kudos descending"
