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ariadnes_stringa good Yom Tov to everyone who observed Yom Kippur yesterday, and to everyone who observed Talk Like a Pirate Day today!
Since I very rarely see TV shows sooner than one day late, and usually have only flippant remarks to make at best, I thought I would make a new category of reaction post. First up: Merlin 3.02.
After a long weekend of praying and fasting and kugel-making and grandparent wrangling, the boys and I were very happy to get home from Hebrew School/ Religious School Committee meetings and watch some medieval dudes whacking each other with broadswords.
So, I think the most important thing about this episode is that it was the first one of the whole series that truly satisfied the boys' appetite for battling, blood and mayhem. For they care as little for talk of destiny as they do for talk of sensible bedtimes. But give them a few skeleton warriors and they're happy.
And despite the fact that the episode was a tissue of not-very-expert allusions to The Prisoner of Azkaban and Peter Jackson's epic portrayal of the battle of Helm's Deep, I was pretty much with them on this. I like a good fireball almost as much as they do, and I may prefer damp-with-battle-sweat!Arthur even to shirtless!Arthur.
And I think I may have mentioned before what a sucker I am for the whole Arthur-becomes-a great-king-somehow-doesn't-he? storyline. So, even though even my five-year-old was in hysterics every time Morgana let loose another evil smirk-of-doom, I have to say I--we all--enjoyed the heck out of the episode.
Let's not even talk about the preview for next week. Why so puerile, Merlin writers?
Since I very rarely see TV shows sooner than one day late, and usually have only flippant remarks to make at best, I thought I would make a new category of reaction post. First up: Merlin 3.02.
After a long weekend of praying and fasting and kugel-making and grandparent wrangling, the boys and I were very happy to get home from Hebrew School/ Religious School Committee meetings and watch some medieval dudes whacking each other with broadswords.
So, I think the most important thing about this episode is that it was the first one of the whole series that truly satisfied the boys' appetite for battling, blood and mayhem. For they care as little for talk of destiny as they do for talk of sensible bedtimes. But give them a few skeleton warriors and they're happy.
And despite the fact that the episode was a tissue of not-very-expert allusions to The Prisoner of Azkaban and Peter Jackson's epic portrayal of the battle of Helm's Deep, I was pretty much with them on this. I like a good fireball almost as much as they do, and I may prefer damp-with-battle-sweat!Arthur even to shirtless!Arthur.
And I think I may have mentioned before what a sucker I am for the whole Arthur-becomes-a great-king-somehow-doesn't-he? storyline. So, even though even my five-year-old was in hysterics every time Morgana let loose another evil smirk-of-doom, I have to say I--we all--enjoyed the heck out of the episode.
Let's not even talk about the preview for next week. Why so puerile, Merlin writers?
