Hm, yeah - the fanservicing, in and of itself, I have no problem with. It's what it might do to Bradley's character as Arthur. At this point, we'll have to wait and see what comes of it.

I'm not expecting much from the next episode - this one and the next one seem to be primarily about Merlin, and Uther and the troll, - but after that, I look forward to more.

And, yes, some of the reaction posts asked why Uther was doing a handfasting when he was of the Christian religion and clearly against the Old Religion: Paganism, which is where handfasting came from.