Also, I increasingly dislike the choices Merlin is making. Major Kira would call him a collaborator.
Yeah; I only watch it patchily but what I've caught of it recently has had me veering between "Wait, why are we supposed to like him again?" and "Oh, wow, this is very brave of them, making it a show about an anti-hero type who increasingly inhabits not so much moral grey areas as the completely covered in shadow bits of the map" and I suppose it's possible they're going for something like that (Merlin's very much in the mould of Who and we did just have WoM) but it feels to me more like "he knows there is a prophecy and thus everything he does is justified if it helps it come to pass", which is one of the main reasons I hate 95% of all prophecy plotting.
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Date: 2009-12-16 08:02 am (UTC)Yeah; I only watch it patchily but what I've caught of it recently has had me veering between "Wait, why are we supposed to like him again?" and "Oh, wow, this is very brave of them, making it a show about an anti-hero type who increasingly inhabits not so much moral grey areas as the completely covered in shadow bits of the map" and I suppose it's possible they're going for something like that (Merlin's very much in the mould of Who and we did just have WoM) but it feels to me more like "he knows there is a prophecy and thus everything he does is justified if it helps it come to pass", which is one of the main reasons I hate 95% of all prophecy plotting.