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I admit, the promo for this episode pissed me off a bit last week, because I thought it portrayed Gwaine as being a kind of villain (more along the lines of Cedric than anything else), and I being a huge fan of Gwaine in legend did not find that at all pleasing. So after watching the episode itself, I was pleased as punch to see how Gwaine turned out.

I actually think that I love Gwaine more than I love Lancelot. I think someone made the comment that Lancelot's more passive than Gwaine, which describes it pretty well. Lancelot will bow to Arthur's decisions, whereas Gwaine seems more the type to tell him to fuck off if he thinks Arthur is wrong. Kind of like Merlin, in a way, which is good. The guy in charge needs underlings who will tell him he's being a moron. Uther doesn't have that anymore, and it shows. Not even Gaius can straight up tell him he's being a bastard anymore.

So we'll have one knight of the Round Table that is a commoner, and another who just lets everyone think that he is a commoner. *bg* Things are definitely shaping up to be interesting for Arthur's reign, to say nothing else. :D

Now, if we can just get rid of Uther and let Arthur be in charge... ;)