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shadowkatFeeling maudlin tonight in part due to that walk down nostalgia lane...wondering what in the heck did I accomplish? On respondent stated somewhat aptly that my relationship with Buffy and the Buffy fandom is in some respects similar to the Buffy/Angel relationship - it has that air of first love affair to it, sad but true. Anyhow...don't mind me. It's that time of week, month, phase of the moon - where no decisions should be made. And the loneliness creeps into the skin with little kid feet. Winter is like that. Gray and gloomy. The streets slick with muck. The sky a hazy gray white, washed of color or shine. Trees naked and bare. And everyone dressed in black jackets. Almost as if someone leeched the color from the world or the shine, and left behind nothing but dank browns, whites, blacks and grays.
Watched Merlin, Lost Girl, and Once Upon a Time - of the three Once was by far the most interesting. None were satisfying. All had that soap opera element...of no resolution or frustration. Once is however continuing to follow the pattern it set in the beginning. If things are going well in the fairy tale world, they aren't in the real one. If well in the real one, not in the fairy tale one. The two stories can't be happy at the same time. It's gotten to the point that I find myself rooting for the fairy tale story to end badly.
Lost Girl was better than I expected. Although co-worker was correct, it is a bit predictable. What's interesting is the lead protagonist is bi-sexual. Her side-kick however is not.
Two women, and a hot guy Fae cop who can help them if they require it. Reminds me a little bit of Xenia actually, has a similar dynamic. The acting is a little stiff, the dialogue silly in places,
and it's rough around the edges, but still entertaining. Comes from Canada. Not as good as Being Erica, but better than Blood Ties. And it is only the pilot.
Merlin has jumped from episodic of the week to full-fledged serial. Kudos. And I'm going to miss ASH. Not Uther. Just ASH. I love Anthony Stewart Head. Hee, Merlin shares two things in common with Buffy - I started watching it because a)it had ASH in it, and b) it was a fantasy and I'm a sucker for fantasy shows, no matter how bad they are. Merlin is actually one of the better written ones, believe it or not.
Once continues to intrigue me. The stranger in town was who I thought he was - the writer of the fairy tale book that Henry owns. And the mysterious object in the box? An old fashioned type-writer. He's a writer. Pandora's box - is a type-writer. The magic in our lives are the stories that we tell. I like the metaphor. I like Once because it reminds me a little of Buffy and Lost in the way it wears its metaphors on its sleeves...its a story that is more about the metaphors and analogoies and characters than theme or plot. Plot...doesn't always interest me so much, I don't know why.
The Snow/Charming back story continues to drift a field from Snow White, a sort of pseudo-contemporary re-working of it. She forces herself to let him go, forget him, because she believes his father will kill him. But he trails after her, calling off the wedding. He can't let her go.
Any more than he can in the real world. Love is defined by Rumple and the Prince's father as a disease, a poison, something that destroys. A pain to be erased. But Grumpy wisely tells Snow to hold on to hers. I've always found how love is dealt with in stories to be...interesting. As if we don't quite understand this emotion ourselves.
Lost Girl deals with love too in a way, the main character is a succubus, a genus of the fae, and
her power is to turn people on and suck their energy from them with a kiss. The story is clearly borrowed from LK Hamilton's Kiss of Shadows. It's not as interesting as Once. Follows old tropes that I've seen done too many times. But I'll stick with it.
Merlin also delves into Love. But friendship and parental love. Arthur attempts to save his father with magic, Morgana kills him with it. Uther doesn't ask to be saved. He dies saving his son, Arthur's life. And as Guise tells Merlin, Morgana killed Uther long ago when she broke his heart, choosing Morghaust and magic over Uther - a fate that Uther's own misguided actions resulted in.
Arthur has the chance to be a better man than his father and not follow in Uther's footsteps. At some point Arthur has to discover who and what Merlin is and make a choice - does he throw his friend to the wolves or give him the benefit of the doubt? Even though I know the mythology, I'm not quite sure which way it will go. How they dealt with Lancelot surprised me.
I was frustrated with Arthur throughout the Merlin episode and to a degree Merlin and Guise. Why didn't they reveal what they found out about Morgana to Arthur? Possibly because Arthur wouldn't have forgiven them?
In much the same way I was frustrated with Snow and Charming. For heaven's sake, I thought, you aren't doing Katherine any favors staying with her if you don't love her. Make a clean break and go with Snow. She'll thank you for it later. There's nothing worse in the world than being with someone who is in love with someone else or yearning for someone else. Talk about pain. Why people hold on to people who do not love them, bewilders me. IT's not as painful being alone. And far less lonely. With Merlin - I thought, come on, trust Arthur a little bit, he'd have to be an idiot to kill you considering how many times you've said his life. But, it is a tv show, and if they revealed who Merlin was this soon it would kill the story. It's just a particular story plot point that always has annoyed me - what I loved about Buffy, was they revealed early on that she was the slayer - we didn't have to wait very long for the reveal. (Sorry have had Buffy on the brain lately).
Watched Merlin, Lost Girl, and Once Upon a Time - of the three Once was by far the most interesting. None were satisfying. All had that soap opera element...of no resolution or frustration. Once is however continuing to follow the pattern it set in the beginning. If things are going well in the fairy tale world, they aren't in the real one. If well in the real one, not in the fairy tale one. The two stories can't be happy at the same time. It's gotten to the point that I find myself rooting for the fairy tale story to end badly.
Lost Girl was better than I expected. Although co-worker was correct, it is a bit predictable. What's interesting is the lead protagonist is bi-sexual. Her side-kick however is not.
Two women, and a hot guy Fae cop who can help them if they require it. Reminds me a little bit of Xenia actually, has a similar dynamic. The acting is a little stiff, the dialogue silly in places,
and it's rough around the edges, but still entertaining. Comes from Canada. Not as good as Being Erica, but better than Blood Ties. And it is only the pilot.
Merlin has jumped from episodic of the week to full-fledged serial. Kudos. And I'm going to miss ASH. Not Uther. Just ASH. I love Anthony Stewart Head. Hee, Merlin shares two things in common with Buffy - I started watching it because a)it had ASH in it, and b) it was a fantasy and I'm a sucker for fantasy shows, no matter how bad they are. Merlin is actually one of the better written ones, believe it or not.
Once continues to intrigue me. The stranger in town was who I thought he was - the writer of the fairy tale book that Henry owns. And the mysterious object in the box? An old fashioned type-writer. He's a writer. Pandora's box - is a type-writer. The magic in our lives are the stories that we tell. I like the metaphor. I like Once because it reminds me a little of Buffy and Lost in the way it wears its metaphors on its sleeves...its a story that is more about the metaphors and analogoies and characters than theme or plot. Plot...doesn't always interest me so much, I don't know why.
The Snow/Charming back story continues to drift a field from Snow White, a sort of pseudo-contemporary re-working of it. She forces herself to let him go, forget him, because she believes his father will kill him. But he trails after her, calling off the wedding. He can't let her go.
Any more than he can in the real world. Love is defined by Rumple and the Prince's father as a disease, a poison, something that destroys. A pain to be erased. But Grumpy wisely tells Snow to hold on to hers. I've always found how love is dealt with in stories to be...interesting. As if we don't quite understand this emotion ourselves.
Lost Girl deals with love too in a way, the main character is a succubus, a genus of the fae, and
her power is to turn people on and suck their energy from them with a kiss. The story is clearly borrowed from LK Hamilton's Kiss of Shadows. It's not as interesting as Once. Follows old tropes that I've seen done too many times. But I'll stick with it.
Merlin also delves into Love. But friendship and parental love. Arthur attempts to save his father with magic, Morgana kills him with it. Uther doesn't ask to be saved. He dies saving his son, Arthur's life. And as Guise tells Merlin, Morgana killed Uther long ago when she broke his heart, choosing Morghaust and magic over Uther - a fate that Uther's own misguided actions resulted in.
Arthur has the chance to be a better man than his father and not follow in Uther's footsteps. At some point Arthur has to discover who and what Merlin is and make a choice - does he throw his friend to the wolves or give him the benefit of the doubt? Even though I know the mythology, I'm not quite sure which way it will go. How they dealt with Lancelot surprised me.
I was frustrated with Arthur throughout the Merlin episode and to a degree Merlin and Guise. Why didn't they reveal what they found out about Morgana to Arthur? Possibly because Arthur wouldn't have forgiven them?
In much the same way I was frustrated with Snow and Charming. For heaven's sake, I thought, you aren't doing Katherine any favors staying with her if you don't love her. Make a clean break and go with Snow. She'll thank you for it later. There's nothing worse in the world than being with someone who is in love with someone else or yearning for someone else. Talk about pain. Why people hold on to people who do not love them, bewilders me. IT's not as painful being alone. And far less lonely. With Merlin - I thought, come on, trust Arthur a little bit, he'd have to be an idiot to kill you considering how many times you've said his life. But, it is a tv show, and if they revealed who Merlin was this soon it would kill the story. It's just a particular story plot point that always has annoyed me - what I loved about Buffy, was they revealed early on that she was the slayer - we didn't have to wait very long for the reveal. (Sorry have had Buffy on the brain lately).
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Date: 2012-01-25 06:00 am (UTC)They argue that because it's the truth, but also to change Arthur's newly hardened heart against magic. "Magic took both my parents!"
If they simply pass on the blame to Morgana, even though she is in fact at fault, then Arthur will always have that truth: Magic took both is parents. But if they can convince Arthur Uther died because he was dying anyway, then that is one less bout of suffering Arthur can blame on magic.