Sidhe loves you (yeah, yeah, yeah)

[daibhidc]

Interesting developments in Merlin tonight: it finally gets confirmed that Morgana has powers, at the same time as the Sidhe make their appearance. Whether this juxtaposition has anything to do with her becoming "La Fey" remains to be seen.

The Sidhe look like a cross between Tinkerbell and DS9 background aliens. They live in Avalon, the land of youth, which is a fairly reasonable tying in of the Arthurian take on the Isle of the Blessed with the standard Celtic Otherworld. There's a gateway to Avalon in a lake near Camelot, which is presumably The Lake, as in "Lady of"...

Apart from that, Arthur's an idiot, Merlin's an idiot for going along with him[1], and Uther, despite his hatred of magic, doesn't think twice about two travellers carrying staffs with, as the song says, knobs on the end. (Presumably if they'd been wearing pointy hats and robes with stars on he'd have thought it was an unusual fashion quirk.)

I'm also a bit surprised that, after the storyline makes the humanised Sidhe slightly sympathetic (the father wants immortality restored to his daughter, not himself; the daughter isn't happy about getting it without her father), Merlin blasts them both into smithereens without a second thought.

[1]Uther: (thinking Merlin's to blame for everything) Are you mentally defective?
Merlin: (realising he's carrying the can for Arthur again): Probably...

Comments

[artela.livejournal.com]

hmmm... thanks for all the spoilers :-(

(We didn't watch it last night as he was working so are gong to be iPlayering it today!)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Whoops, sorry! It started out being a general discussion of themes, and then the spoiler slipped out and I didn't even notice.

I'll start LJ-cutting and marking these.

[scarfman]

qtrhorserider sees that Merlin is going to be a midseason replacement in the US on NBC, one of the three major broadcast networks (Or is it four? Does Fox count as major now?).