Virtue - 2/3

Title: Held By A Kiss

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Companion piece to my fic Rapture - Arthur's POV of the events. Arthur gets flogged for his kindness.

Pairing: Arthur/Merlin

Warnings: torture

Beta: jusmine984

Notes: What, you thought it was over? Shame, my friends, shame. ^_^ This part corresponds with Part 2: Scarlet Pride.

( Part 1 - Deliver Us From Evil )

( Part 2 - Held By A Kiss )

Analysis of Merlin 210: Sweet Dreams

Okay, so, I'm seeing a lot of love and a lot of hate for this episode, mostly on random levels of spaz. People with serious personal investment in the show hated the ep, people sitting back for comedy loved it. I've got issues with both.

And, I give up all together on the linear reviewing. Character by character is much easier. ^_^

( So, The Much Loved, er, Hated, um, Something Episode )

Trailer Dissection of Merlin 211: The Witch's Quickening

So, mostly, we see Morgana being persuaded to betray Uther and get the Druids that crystal which will help them defeat him.

1.) Does she know what they're planning with it?

2.) Her eyes - they flash gold. Nimueh, Cedric - their eyes went black when they did magic. Morgause's eyes, who is a deliberately ambiguous though antagonistic character, when red. Mordred's eyes were screwed shut the one time we saw him do magic. Morgana and Merlin's eyes both go gold when they do magic.

Just something to keep in mind.

And, a meta on Morgana:

Everyone's been complaining about her being too passive and missing the Season 1 Morgana.

That's exactly the point.

In the last season, everyone loved Morgana - the adult female audience loved her as a feminist, the kid females loved her as a role-model, and the kid-males thought she was kickass.

So it sucks that she's going to be evil.

Notice how every episode that she's more and more passive in, we hate her more? Now are we going to feel so bad about her turning evil?

Keep in mind, my friends. ^+^

ETA: I looked up "the witch's quickening", which go no response, so I looked up "quickening": it's described as a state of pregnancy where the child shows signs of life that the mother can feel, i.e. kicking. Think this matters?