Mordred III: This Time It's Personal
Dec. 5th, 2009 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcWell, after last week's fairly dull love-potion story, which only served to remind us "Gwen/Arthur: OTP" and completely waste the character of Vivian, this week's kicks things into high gear. It looks like Merlin is taking a leaf from Doctor Who's book; a two-part finale with a semi-detached story leading into it.
Firstly, Mordred's back. And, as suggested at the end of his last appearance, he's graduated from Creepy Child to full-blown Enfant Terrible. Merlin may start out thinking Alvarr is using Mordred, but there's every reason to believe it's the other way round.
Alvarr himself is an interesting character. He's a ruthless killer, but he's got a point; usually the fact that sorcerers are being persecuted is overshadowed by the ones we see being total nutters, but Alvarr has a code of honour, and refuses to betray Morgana.
Ah, yes, Morgana. Another subplot that's been ramped up a notch, obviously, is Morgana's defiance of Uther ("obviously" because it's a Mordred story). There's no question in Uther's mind now that Morgana is in league with sorcery, and it looks like her alliance of evil with Mordred, as prophecised by the dragon, is getting steadily closer.
That is, if you want to believe the dragon. Currently, he seems more concerned with when Merlin's going to release him than helping Arthur fulfill his destiny. Merlin's vision of the future shows the dragon destroying Camelot, which makes it all the more worrying that the "Next week" trailer shows him hacking away at that chain...
Firstly, Mordred's back. And, as suggested at the end of his last appearance, he's graduated from Creepy Child to full-blown Enfant Terrible. Merlin may start out thinking Alvarr is using Mordred, but there's every reason to believe it's the other way round.
Alvarr himself is an interesting character. He's a ruthless killer, but he's got a point; usually the fact that sorcerers are being persecuted is overshadowed by the ones we see being total nutters, but Alvarr has a code of honour, and refuses to betray Morgana.
Ah, yes, Morgana. Another subplot that's been ramped up a notch, obviously, is Morgana's defiance of Uther ("obviously" because it's a Mordred story). There's no question in Uther's mind now that Morgana is in league with sorcery, and it looks like her alliance of evil with Mordred, as prophecised by the dragon, is getting steadily closer.
That is, if you want to believe the dragon. Currently, he seems more concerned with when Merlin's going to release him than helping Arthur fulfill his destiny. Merlin's vision of the future shows the dragon destroying Camelot, which makes it all the more worrying that the "Next week" trailer shows him hacking away at that chain...
