Interesting read - definitely more thoughtful and less emotional than most of the other discussions I've seen on my flist.
Fwiw, I felt the episode has weaknesses that were hard for me to ignore. Like I said the other night, I liked it in principle and I totally agree with you re the characterisations - it all worked for me - BUT that ending was lame. Really lame. And I do think the title is very important as is the scene with the lake; i.e. Freya being cremated on the same lake as Excalibur was cast away ... and that makes that random appearance of Merlin/dead!Freya in the forest even more annoyingly lame.
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Date: 2009-11-27 09:34 am (UTC)Fwiw, I felt the episode has weaknesses that were hard for me to ignore. Like I said the other night, I liked it in principle and I totally agree with you re the characterisations - it all worked for me - BUT that ending was lame. Really lame. And I do think the title is very important as is the scene with the lake; i.e. Freya being cremated on the same lake as Excalibur was cast away ... and that makes that random appearance of Merlin/dead!Freya in the forest even more annoyingly lame.