Write Or Die Is Awesome

[redbrunja]

 

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Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving

Day 11 - A show that disappointed you




Every time I see a music vid about Merlin I think to myself 'surely, this must be the kind of show you'd love - it has chick with swords and chicks with magic and it's a retelling of the Aurthurian legands and Gwen is a black chick and Giles is having inappropriate subtext with his sword-wielding Seer ward' and then I watch the pilot and realize that a.) the writers cannot write and b.) Merlin is an idiot of such epic proportions I can't even speak of it. And I hear tell that the agency of the female character remain deeply problematic. Fail. Thank god Legend of the Seeker was there to sooth my disappointment.

Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

Comments

[terenewen.livejournal.com]

...You call it The Great Slash Dragon too?? ♥

I watched Merlin very, reluctantly at first... but it has that really, really bad Fantasy cheesiness that occasionally becomes addictive. I cannot say that it is good. I can say that Arthur is very pretty and I enjoy watching him.

[mewsrissicat.livejournal.com]

*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.

[terenewen.livejournal.com]

Agreed, it's probably one of the campiest shows I've seen, and I always get a laugh out of it. XD But yeah, everything said about Morgana and Gwen is sadly true. 8( I was super excited about them at first... and that episode where they defend Merlin's village and fight baddies is pretty great, but other than that it's just Morgana being manipulated again and again and Gwen not being allowed her full badassery.

Thank goodness that damn dragon is so entertaining. XD