Re: Merlin, Episode Five

[brigdh]

Jesus Christ, this is the slashiest show I have ever seen.

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[kessie.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha. They don't try for subtlety, do they?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No! It is astounding!

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

I know.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha.

[chiasmus.livejournal.com]

Haha, isn't it great?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It is both great and astounding in equal porportions.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just? Plus, girls! Girls who like each other!

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

Girls who not only like and talk to each other, but who have concerns and lives outside the male characters!

And, you know, there's the femslash.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes! Which is one of the best parts of it!

[arabesque]

...oh, it keeps getting better :3

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*grins* So I hear, though it's hard to know how they could possibly get gayer.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

It gets slashier. The whole show sort of is a textbook example of recognizing your audience and playing to it for all you're worth.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

But dude. Slashier? How?!

I suppose I will find out soon enough...

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Wait 'til you get to the big sleepover at Mom's house. That's how. You'll know what I'm talking about the instant you see it.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that? I totally cannot wait until I have seen whatever it is. Because I do not yet understand, and yet it sounds awesome.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I've checked, and it's episode 10. I mention that only so that you don't watch episodes 6-9 waiting for the relevant shot to jump out at you.

Not that there won't be others along the way. There will.

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

So, so gay. In the best ways.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, exactly.

[pindrops.livejournal.com]

...I need to start watching this series, right?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

By the sounds of things we both do, yes. :D

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

Merlin delivers on the slash. Like whoa. And it gets yet slashier.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

That's what I keep hearing! Are the boys prettier in person than on icons? Because they're awfully pasty for my tastes, at least in 100 x 100 squares.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

I may not be the best judge, given that I personally like the Northern skin-like-milk thing. Nevertheless, I'm going to say yes on this one. Bradley James in particular has one of those faces that's better with more resolution; you don't see the bone structure in any image small enough to fit onto an icon. Also, professional lighting can wash it out -- interestingly, he can occasionally manage the trick of being prettier in informal video than on screen.

The difference is perhaps less extreme with Colin Morgan, where the bones are more pronounced, so that at some angles you can actually see them even in tiny pictures. But it's still a substantial difference; and the icons don't show one of the more interesting things about him, which is that he can go from awkward and almost ugly to eerily, inhumanly beautiful depending on angle and light.

Of course, you might want to watch with the sound off, depending on your tolerance for bad dialogue in a language you can actually understand. I personally feel sure I would love this show with a perfectly idiotic passion, if only it were in Japanese.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

After last week's Dollhouse, I feel confident there is no show I cannot tolerate bad dialogue in.

Northern skin-like-milk thing

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

In Irish families the term is "fish belly white." It's a Gaelic word meaning 'They aren't sick, they always look that way.'

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Merin will be broadcast in Canada on CTV starting June 21st.