Merlin 3.12
Nov. 29th, 2010 11:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ariadnes_stringY'all, I kinda gathered from my flist that 3.12 was going to be awesome, but nobody warned me that it was going to put together like 99.9% of my favorite narrative cliches!
1. I love that thing where two people have to fight each otherto the death even though they don't want to. Particularly to rescue someone else or each other. It's like for me, the best thing about "Amok Time" is Kirk and Spock fighting each other. Fuck-or-die? Who cares? Fight! (as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anniehow tells me, I am not a great pacifist--except in thing political).
So, um, Arthur and Gwaine fighting (& Arthur protecting Merlin) made me very happy.
2. I know I talk trash about the Merlin writers a lot, but I have to respect them for the way they just bring the sick!hurt!Arthur at the end of every season. There hasn't been a season finale yet in which he hasn't sweated through an infected and/or poisoned wound. And, no, a h/c junkie like me has no complaints about this repetition. None at all.
Plus, this time, they had "being wounded out in the woods," "wounded hero doggedly pursues righteousness" and "Merlin bosses Arthur around" as added bonuses.
I don't keep up with Merlin fic, but if anybody's seen any missing scene fic about Merlin and Gwaine looking after Arthur in the woods, I'd be very happy to know about it (and yes, you can take "looking after" in any way you'd like ;)).
I think there was more stuff. The boys, of course, loved the fighting. And we're all looking forward to next week, when Arthur and his men incinerate the immortal knights with their blinding hotness (for nothing else can defeat the Cup of Life), tho' I guess they're going to need Lancelot's help to do it.
1. I love that thing where two people have to fight each other
anniehow tells me, I am not a great pacifist--except in thing political). So, um, Arthur and Gwaine fighting (& Arthur protecting Merlin) made me very happy.
2. I know I talk trash about the Merlin writers a lot, but I have to respect them for the way they just bring the sick!hurt!Arthur at the end of every season. There hasn't been a season finale yet in which he hasn't sweated through an infected and/or poisoned wound. And, no, a h/c junkie like me has no complaints about this repetition. None at all.
Plus, this time, they had "being wounded out in the woods," "wounded hero doggedly pursues righteousness" and "Merlin bosses Arthur around" as added bonuses.
I don't keep up with Merlin fic, but if anybody's seen any missing scene fic about Merlin and Gwaine looking after Arthur in the woods, I'd be very happy to know about it (and yes, you can take "looking after" in any way you'd like ;)).
I think there was more stuff. The boys, of course, loved the fighting. And we're all looking forward to next week, when Arthur and his men incinerate the immortal knights with their blinding hotness (for nothing else can defeat the Cup of Life), tho' I guess they're going to need Lancelot's help to do it.
