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Merlin. And, relatedly, cartoons.

DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME, WORLD, THAT IN THE WHOLE OF LIVEJOURNAL, I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS 'MERLIN/WILL' AS AN INTEREST?!? D-: WHAT THE VERY FUCK.

I watched MERLIN FINALE instead of finalizing my paper and doing stats because...?

Okay, I think I am all MERLIN/ARTHUR-ED OUT. I don't know, it's like the spark is gone; the BBC has gone out of its way to make sure I don't even have to try anymore, and like. I dunno. MERLIN AND ARTHUR'S TRUE LOVE, IN MY FACE ALL THE TIME. And it's like, "Okay, I get it." It was cute for a while, and cute that Merlin and Arthur's true love have the blessing of their parents, and that dragon, and whatnot. It's cute, but my heart doesn't go PITTERPAT or SQUEEFLAIL anymore. Such pitterpattings are now elicited by ARTHUR/GWEN and MORGANA/GWEN, and UTHER/MORGANA. Where are the awesome fics of these ships??

The following is just liveblogging:
-- "RUN AWAAAAAAAY." MONTY PYTHON FLASHBACKS. AGAIN. ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN THE KNIGHTS OF THE FAIL TABLE GRACE THE SCREEN.
-- !!!!!!! QUESTING BEAST
-- "One bite and there is no cure." YEAH WHATEVER.
-- omfg Morgana/Gwen touchage make me soooooo happy.
-- Why are Merlin and Arthur suddenly alone? Where are the Knights of the Fail Table?
-- "Can you hear me, sire?"?!??! OH GAIUS. YOU BIG SILLY. *SMUSHES HIM*
-- Dude, I want that book-skimming spell, it would come in handy for... exam times.
-- Shirtless Arthur for the win.
-- HMMM, I WONDER HOW THIS RABBIT'S FOOT IS GOING TO SERVE AS A PLOT DEVICE.
-- SHIRTLESS ARTHUR MAKING SEX NOISES FOR THE WIN OMG. I watched it twice, omg.
-- ARTHUR/GWEN I SHIP IT MIGHTILY. FOR THE LOVE OF ARTHUR/GWEN.
-- I kind of like the candlelight vigil, but also found it a bit silly?
-- Nimueh has like the MOST AWFUL LIPSTICK JOB.
-- Did you really have to make it rain? You're on an island! You're surrounded by water!
-- OMG ARTHUR/GWEN ARTHURRRRRRR/GWENNNNNNNNN. WHEN HE SAYS "GUINEVERE" LIKE THAT I GO LIKE THIS: HADOKP"SKFKDOGKOGKOR
-- DRAGON WITH AN OWN AGENDA IS MY FAVORITE. And the whole Merlin vs. Dragon scene there, AWESOME. Competes with Arthur/Gwen for FAVORITE EPISODE BITS.
-- Uhhh, since when has Gaius told him to do what is right? What about Episode 8?
-- EVERYONE DYING FOR EVERYONE ELSE JESUS CHRIST.
-- Rabbit's foot was not a plot device after all.

Hey, remember Captain Planet and the Planeteers? OH MAN. It is definitely going on my 'fandoms to request if I ever join Yuletide' list, which already includes Johnny Maxwell and The Godfather. I was going through YouTube clips from the show in a fit of nostalgia, and I would like to share with you the most cracktastic findings:
-- In which they SAVE BELFAST. Ya, remember the one where they go to Northern Ireland and get caught in the crossfire between Catholics and Protestants, and attempt to broker reconciliation and also A NUCLEAR BOMB IS INVOLVED??
-- In which they MEET HITLER whilst time-traveling and one look into Hitler's POLLUTED SOUL sends Captain Planet into a TIZZY. (That's just a 15-sec clip; click here for the 5-min.)

OH CHILDHOOD. I still ship Wheeler/Linka.

Okay, enough with cracktastic, let's go to PURE AWESOME. "High Note" is a Chuck Jones cartoon from the 1960s about... music notes. If you have even a cursory knowledge of music theory, check it out as it will BLOW YOUR MIND with adorkable.

The "Susan returns to Aslan's Country" fic of a thousand cuddles and long walks on the beach is at 1000-ish words and will maybe be posted soon. There are also fics to post still for

narniaexchange but we are being A BIT HAPHAZARD AND AWFUL ABOUT IT SORRY. :(

OKAY NAP TIME FOR LASSITER

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Rabbit's foot was not a plot device after all.

THAT WAS SO WEIRD. Pls to be making use of your plot devices!

many weird things about this episode! like nimueh's awful sense of fashion. and the whole hunith thing was kind of overwrought and kind of too easy. the whole self-sacrifice thing is getting kind of overwrought, i dunno. and wasn't it JUST last episode when merlin was having murder wibbles?! he has killed SO MANY PEOPLE.

le sigh, is it that no ep will ever have anything on ep 10? my second fav is ep 8. WHICH ARE YOUR FAVORITES

To Kill the King, and the one with the Black Knight. :D

yes yes! those two are definitely my next two favorites. i love 8 for its PENDRAGON ANGST, how uther and arthur and morgana are all struggling to be good ppl except it all goes KINDA WRONG. gah, arthur's "good son vs. good prince" issues get me EVERY TIME. uther and his baggage, and morgana and her AWESOME.

and TO KILL THE THE KING just like, expands some more on the family dysfunction because HELLO UTHER/MORGANA AND THEIR BONDAGE CHAMBER OF UH-OH. uther/morgana, her manipulation and his angry stubbornness MY OH MY i am all <3333

I do remember Captain Planet! I remember being horrified when someone only a few years younger than me said they had no idea about the show. Even after I sang the theme song. That is what is wrong with young folk. No appreciation of the planet or awesome cartoons ;)

captain planet was HIGHLARIOUS. it's so funny, watching it now, because it meant so well but it was just so often Doing It Wrong. also: wheeler/linkaaaaaaa!

Uhhh, since when has Gaius told him to do what is right? What about Episode 8?

I thought that exact same thing! Surely the dynamic has been Gaius acting like a big morally grey scardey pants while Merlin goes off and does the right thing in spite of that. HMMM.

I AM RLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT SUSAN FIC!!

IKR, gaius has been cautious, that's all, not necessarily capital-R Right. oh merlin, and his extreme WOOLY-HEADEDNESS and forgetful morals. and then there's the whole Purge thing, but i don't know how much merlin actually knows about that.

ooh awesome i am glad! it basically grew out of, like, writing the BAJILLIONTH angsty narnia snippet and being like, "WTF WHY SO DEPRESSING, NARNIA" and i started writing it to avoid being consumed by DESPAIR. i just tried not think about how, like, the only way to write my OT4 post-series necessitates EVERYONE DYING. oh lewis.

I thought that exact same thing! Surely the dynamic has been Gaius acting like a big morally grey scardey pants while Merlin goes off and does the right thing in spite of that. HMMM.

Well... that is ONE way to teach the boy!

I'm thinking perhaps they wrote the season finale long before they wrote the middle-to-late episodes? The finale fits nicely with eps 1-3, but lacks the finesse of 8-12.

OOH i never thought of that. 'cos i dunno how TV show-making works. but yeah, you're right, 8-12 of awesome (with extra MASSIVE SPARKLIES detour in 11), and then finale was just kinda underwhelming

Is the whole show written by one person? Their lead writer could've done the first few and the last one, and left the rest to a particularly brilliant underling.

See also: Dr Who.

to everything in your comment, i sadly must reply: i do not know anything about that :(

I agree with this post x 10000.

Particularly, this bit:

-- OMG ARTHUR/GWEN ARTHURRRRRRR/GWENNNNNNNNN. WHEN HE SAYS "GUINEVERE" LIKE THAT I GO LIKE THIS: HADOKP"SKFKDOGKOGKOR

Edited 2008-12-14 20:32 (UTC)

YES

HOLY CRAP THEY ARE SO ADORABLE AND HOT

i feel she would be just as awesome as merlin is at whacking arthur upside the head and going "NO YOU ARE STUPID", in her own way.

She would totally hit him, Donna-style.

*cough* I am actually getting, like, kind of sick of Merlin because it's spreading all over fandom. It has spread to about half of my lurker journals! And those are three or four different fandoms!

...I do not understand my brain either.

These are, like, the most incompetent knights ever. *shakes head*

UTHER CARRYING ARTHUR THROUGH THE COURTYARD OMG. High point of the ep. AND COLLAPSING.

Morgana running down the steps screaming hysterically! All the wtf was up with her grabbing Merlin's arm and hissing dire warnings at him?

well then good thing for you we're not going to get season 2 for like, A YEAR.

yeah, i end up not seeking Merlin fic out at all, 'cos i'm like afraid of getting lost! i just go to the few authors i trust, and it's not at all like narnia where i willingly like MINE through the shit and wonder whether Fic X or Fic Y is okay or just passably not horrible. i do not know what the hell is up with creepy morgana being omen-y in the halls at merlin! i would like to know! god, i hope she's awesome next season.

omg, so i am like writing the last bit of the "susan in aslan's country" and she's like Had Moments all her siblings now, and now she is walking with aslan and I DUNNO WHERE TO GO WITH IT. 'cos i don't want her to be like, in a position where she thanks aslan for letting her back in, or that she has never moved on from narnia at all, 'cos i don't want to imply that, because SUSAN IS BETTER THAN THAT D-:. so now they're just walking around in "companionable silence" and, god, i just need the one or two sentences to close this.

yeah, i was...well, i wandered vaguely over to one of the lurker journals i haven't checked for a while, because the author had been gone for, like, six months, and she suddenly switched from writing sga to merlin. which, i mean, whatever, yay! because she's awesome. AND YET. and it is like a plague. it is everywhere! seriously, so many different fandoms: sga, sg-1, spn, hp, narnia (well. to be fair, i originally got into it from narnia aka YOU). not btvs, though. huh.

you know how aslan and i are. perhaps she raises her face to the sun and is at peace! with the blessing of the lion on her skin. or whatever.

a plague of SPARKLIES, to which i prescribe MORE UNICORNS.

given enough time, monkeys on keyboards will eventually write about merlin and arthur's gayrotic love! (and by merlin and arthur, i may possibly mean peter and arthur.) how long before 'merlin' leaks into THREAD, i wonder.

CAPTAIN PLANET

HE'S OUR HERO

stop being so haphazard with narniaexchange, it's very frowny face.

This week on the bus to work, should I write about Lucy and her knife, or Harley Quinn as I flashback to my love of Batman?

LUCY OF COURSE
who the hell is this quinn thingie, pish posh to your batman

ALTERNATELY YOU SHOULD WRITE WHEELER/LINKA. THIS WOULD ALSO BE EXCELLENT.

Ahahaha, Captain Planet! I had totally forgotten about that show! I LOVED THAT SHOW, but why did that poor kid get stuck with the power of heart? And also, you'd think they would stop wearing rings, they keep getting them stolen.

This Merlin show, this is new, right? Only I see it *everywhere* now! Very mystifying. I would watch it, but somehow it is vacation and I have NO TIME, how does this even make sense.

(Mostly commenting to say, I just watched that cartoon and omg, cutest thing ever! Thanks for linking it!)

oh captain planet! i want the one where their rings get stolen by war-profiteering scientists who duplicate and enhance the design and the planeteers become INDIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WEAPONRY OF WORLD WAR 3. or has this already been done? i didn't watch the "new adventures" so much. the moralizing was strangely done, villains who are all like, "I POLLUTE BECAUSE IT COMPLETES ME AND GLADDENS MY VERY SOUL." but i guess what can you do, with a kids' show about recycling.

merlin is started this autumn and it just wrapped up season 1 last week (COMMENCE WITHDRAWAL), so there's plenty of time to catch up, if you wish it, before season 2 arrives. i hear NBC (or someone) is picking it up for next year?

(i love that cartoon! you're welcome! have you watched the old "duck amuck" WB cartoon with daffy duck? it's along similar meta lines.)

Well, why else would you pollute the world?

(yes! I miss watching cartoons on Saturday mornings, but they aren't good anymore. :(.)

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