Much depends, you see, on where Bradley was when he and Arthur got swapped - did it happen in the night, so that Bradley woke up in Arthur's bed and Arthur woke up in Bradley's temporary-for-filming-season flat near Pierrefonds? Does Arthur suddenly find himself on set somewhere? In any case, I think he may play along for a little while, trying to figure out the situation, but pretty shortly he comes to the conclusion that he's been kidnapped by some sorcerous means into a world that is either entirely foreign or a baffling mockery of his own, and then he tries to Arthur his way out of the situation, i.e. starts attacking whoever's in his way, at which point I would guess they get a half-dozen techs to sit on him until the on-set medic can sedate him.
So, okay, they have a problem: Bradley's totally flipped his shit and thinks he's Arthur (everyone else thought it was an amusing turn into method acting right before the part where he came terrifyingly close to seriously injuring/killing someone, and then they became convinced that he was genuinely unwell). And then Colin shows up and points out that if Bradley really thinks he's Arthur, he'll want to talk to Colin. Well, to Merlin, but Colin's got a better shot at getting him to listen than almost anybody else (depending on where Bradley/Arthur is in the show, anyway; if he's just after the end of series one things could be a bit awkward, but it's worth trying).
I think Colin, right away, is open to the possibility that this has actually happened, and within a minute or so of talking to Bradley he's able to demonstrate that it has actually happened: no matter how much he practiced with a prop sword, Bradley's hands were never callused and scarred like Arthur's. So then Colin has to tell Arthur a story to make the modern world at least a little bit comprehensible, and part of it is that stories are sacred, because they are the only magic our world has, and they connect us to all the other worlds from which we are otherwise cut off--including Arthur's own. And so actors, like himself and the lost Bradley, are also sacred (which is the only reason Arthur was not punished more direly for attacking those men, incidentally), for the sake of their labors to bring the stories to life. And so it's desperately important that Arthur take Bradley's place and help them to continue telling the story.
And that's about when I fell asleep, but I imagine there's a lot of Colin and the others introducing Arthur to the modern world, while the stories being filmed echo the Arthur-suddenly-taken-ill plotline, and then Arthur's return and the coming war, as Arthur gets better able to cope with filming.
Also there is the part where Arthur kisses Colin and Colin says, "Oh, God, the crazy people on the internet are right. That's a bit depressing."
...um, you know, so something along those general lines. I think.
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Much depends, you see, on where Bradley was when he and Arthur got swapped - did it happen in the night, so that Bradley woke up in Arthur's bed and Arthur woke up in Bradley's temporary-for-filming-season flat near Pierrefonds? Does Arthur suddenly find himself on set somewhere? In any case, I think he may play along for a little while, trying to figure out the situation, but pretty shortly he comes to the conclusion that he's been kidnapped by some sorcerous means into a world that is either entirely foreign or a baffling mockery of his own, and then he tries to Arthur his way out of the situation, i.e. starts attacking whoever's in his way, at which point I would guess they get a half-dozen techs to sit on him until the on-set medic can sedate him.
So, okay, they have a problem: Bradley's totally flipped his shit and thinks he's Arthur (everyone else thought it was an amusing turn into method acting right before the part where he came terrifyingly close to seriously injuring/killing someone, and then they became convinced that he was genuinely unwell). And then Colin shows up and points out that if Bradley really thinks he's Arthur, he'll want to talk to Colin. Well, to Merlin, but Colin's got a better shot at getting him to listen than almost anybody else (depending on where Bradley/Arthur is in the show, anyway; if he's just after the end of series one things could be a bit awkward, but it's worth trying).
I think Colin, right away, is open to the possibility that this has actually happened, and within a minute or so of talking to Bradley he's able to demonstrate that it has actually happened: no matter how much he practiced with a prop sword, Bradley's hands were never callused and scarred like Arthur's. So then Colin has to tell Arthur a story to make the modern world at least a little bit comprehensible, and part of it is that stories are sacred, because they are the only magic our world has, and they connect us to all the other worlds from which we are otherwise cut off--including Arthur's own. And so actors, like himself and the lost Bradley, are also sacred (which is the only reason Arthur was not punished more direly for attacking those men, incidentally), for the sake of their labors to bring the stories to life. And so it's desperately important that Arthur take Bradley's place and help them to continue telling the story.
And that's about when I fell asleep, but I imagine there's a lot of Colin and the others introducing Arthur to the modern world, while the stories being filmed echo the Arthur-suddenly-taken-ill plotline, and then Arthur's return and the coming war, as Arthur gets better able to cope with filming.
Also there is the part where Arthur kisses Colin and Colin says, "Oh, God, the crazy people on the internet are right. That's a bit depressing."
...um, you know, so something along those general lines. I think.