I've just finished watching the ep, and I was completely spoiled for it, plus there were spoilers before that heavily suggested Arthur would meet his end, so I was able to just focus on the good bits and I'm remarkably dry-eyed and smiley?
But one of the reasons for that is that I've been angry and sad about Arthur's likely death for weeks, now (I lost a ridiculous number of hours of sleep over it, considering it's a TV show *g*), and yeah, pretty much for all the reasons mentioned in this post/the comments. We're supposed to believe the golden age was already there, but we never even saw it. Wasn't it all supposed to be about Arthur lifting the ban on magic? I mean, like, from the very first episode? Seriously, wtf. The writers have always been terrible at writing arcs, but this takes the cake. Merlin didn't really achieve everything he set out to, no matter what the dragon said, and I'm not quite sure how this Arthur is supposed to be the king of legend considering he didn't get a damned chance to do what he was supposed to. My favourite part was always imagining a future where Arthur and Merlin would work side by side to unite Albion and deal with the fall-out of lifting the ban on magic - with Arthur fully in the know about Merlin, and both of them more powerful for it.
The reveal in itself was more than I could ever have hoped for, given they only had one ep to pull if off, and also OMG all the touching and holding and, gaaah, but dammit, why couldn't they have twisted this part of the legend, as they have so many others, and Arthur miraculously survive at the end of it?
I'm hoping for loads of fic where somehow Arthur gets resurrected in canon time after all and he gets to be the great king with Merlin and Gwen at his side. (Also possibly a fic where he decides after waking up that he doesn't want to be king anymore, and runs away to live on a farm with Merlin, but that's another story altogether...)
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Date: 2012-12-27 12:13 am (UTC)But one of the reasons for that is that I've been angry and sad about Arthur's likely death for weeks, now (I lost a ridiculous number of hours of sleep over it, considering it's a TV show *g*), and yeah, pretty much for all the reasons mentioned in this post/the comments. We're supposed to believe the golden age was already there, but we never even saw it. Wasn't it all supposed to be about Arthur lifting the ban on magic? I mean, like, from the very first episode? Seriously, wtf. The writers have always been terrible at writing arcs, but this takes the cake. Merlin didn't really achieve everything he set out to, no matter what the dragon said, and I'm not quite sure how this Arthur is supposed to be the king of legend considering he didn't get a damned chance to do what he was supposed to. My favourite part was always imagining a future where Arthur and Merlin would work side by side to unite Albion and deal with the fall-out of lifting the ban on magic - with Arthur fully in the know about Merlin, and both of them more powerful for it.
The reveal in itself was more than I could ever have hoped for, given they only had one ep to pull if off, and also OMG all the touching and holding and, gaaah, but dammit, why couldn't they have twisted this part of the legend, as they have so many others, and Arthur miraculously survive at the end of it?
I'm hoping for loads of fic where somehow Arthur gets resurrected in canon time after all and he gets to be the great king with Merlin and Gwen at his side. (Also possibly a fic where he decides after waking up that he doesn't want to be king anymore, and runs away to live on a farm with Merlin, but that's another story altogether...)