*nods* It was the same "campiness' that I remember from early Doctor Who, easy to make fun of, and grow to like, as if it were a really dorky friend.

Like I said, by the dragon's second line I was **howling** with laughter. The writers MUST have done that deliberately. There's no other explanation.

But RedB is correct... all the women on that show - without exception - are made of Fail. Strong women with agency are the Bad Guys. Good women are constrained and/or persecuted. Merlin's mother comes closest to win, and she is carefully marginalized/limited in the series.