Merlin 4x12: The sword in the stone

[trude]

* Hi writers, the "anyone who weigh more than the very skinny Colin Morgan is SUPER FAT and we must talk about it endlessly"-joke wasn't funny in series 2, and it's not funny now.

* Is Percival speaking to a girl? That cannot end well. Also, since I missed a few seconds here and there: is Percival dead? ETA: He can be glimpsed in the trailer for next week so probably not. [Somewhere in the far-off future, Sir Bors marvels at how easy it is to search for the Grail when you don't have to deal with all these virgins who keep dying left, right and center.]

* Did TPTB at some point draw up a really strange contract which says they have to pay Santiago Cabrera if Lancelot is mentioned? I mean, I get that the guy is dead and the characters who were likely to have any closure with him has had it, but this "Gwen did something bad, but we won't talk about what it was"-thing is pretty grating.

* Bradley James has really perfected his "why do the people I love and trust always betray me?"-face.

* Yes, they should rely less on comedy when it comes to the Merlin-Arthur interactions by now, but I did kind of like village idiot-Arthur.

* OTOH, Merlin seems a bit too happy about manipulating Arhtur's mind. Part of me hopes that he'll get as much flak from fandom about this as Hermione Granger got for changing her parents memories (possibly with their consent and temporarilly) in order to keep them alive.

* I wonder if we will finally learn why Agravaine is supporting Morgana next week.

* King Lot! The good news is that you finally seem to exist and that your oldest son is as hot and brave as he ever was, the bad news is that Orkney seems to have been a bit geographically displaced, your wife committed suicide by Morgana a while ago and your middle son is Inspector Lynley evil and kind of stupid.

* I've never been that fond of the Tristan and Isolde-story (except when it involves Rufus Sewell being brilliantly typecast and cast against type at the same time) so I didn't mind having them turned into smugglers. And they were cute together.

* I made little high-pitched squeaky noices when Hunith showed up, I love her so. I only wish she and Merlin had talked about Balinor.

* Gwen and Arthur...still postponing talking about that.