He is, and that's why I love him. One of the many reasons why, at least. XP
Yeah, you know, the eagerness with which everyone just starts throwing pointy things at that poor bastard as soon as they get a chance always struck me as suspicious, if nothing else. I get the party hard mood, I get that putting together gods and alcohol usually means trouble, but I too think that Baldr was too much of a golden boy to be truly loved by anyone. Except his overprotective mother, and probably his wife, rest her soul. It wouldn't even be that unlikely for them to feign grief afterwards, in Asgard they certainly love their little lies...
Merlin was fun, indeed! The first two seasons were a blast, with all their stupidity and humour and bromance and whatnot... Then, oh, then they thought "why don't we pour a drop of angst in the mix?" and they must have dropped the whole freaking bottle, 'cause it became a lot darker and even less plausible than before. Worse than that, what everyone was waiting for since the first episode, i.e. the magic reveal, happened in the most anticlimatic way EVER in the last ten minutes of the series finale. Right after Camlann. Camlann. Camlann as in Arthur's-final-battle-WHERE-HE'S-MORTALLY-WOUNDED. I mean, WTF? What about "let's all teach Arthur how magic can be beautiful and good so he can rule in peace and be the great king he's destined to be"? I swear, it was a very sad ending, but I was just laughing and laughing in disbelief. XD It would have been better if they'd really forgot about Mordred, anyway, but they fucked up badly with him instead. And with Morgana. She was so beautiful, at the beginning, and then they morphed her into this kind of... psycho-witch, acting with not a single grain of logic. Just hilarious. XD
The Almighty Johnsons sounds like a lot of funny crap, that's why I'm saving it for a rainy day. Well, more like a rainy week: there's a limit to the number of episodes I can watch in a single day, whether I like it or not. XD
I totally agree with you about Camelot! Totally! The magic felt real, for a change, and I loved that. I loved the fact that it really came with a prize, a very high one, and that Merlin's talents were more of the strategic and make-believe kind than anything else. I loved Morgan, I loved many of the secondary characters, but Arthur and Guenevere? My goodness, they couldn't make them worse if they tried! I would have put Kay on the throne in a heartbeat, if I had a choice. He was cute. u_u
Ooooh, would you really pass me the links? *_* I'd love it. I'm really looking forward to read some of the comics, I've got a feeling that I'm gonna love that particular take on the characters very very much indeed. <3
As for American Gods, I've got it (in english, of course) as an ebook, if you'd like. ^^ It's a wonderful novel, with a wonderful BAMF Odin and a perfect son-of-a-bitch Loki and a marvellous assortment of very well modernized deities. I think you'll literally wolf it down, references to norse myths or not. ;)
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Yeah, you know, the eagerness with which everyone just starts throwing pointy things at that poor bastard as soon as they get a chance always struck me as suspicious, if nothing else. I get the party hard mood, I get that putting together gods and alcohol usually means trouble, but I too think that Baldr was too much of a golden boy to be truly loved by anyone. Except his overprotective mother, and probably his wife, rest her soul. It wouldn't even be that unlikely for them to feign grief afterwards, in Asgard they certainly love their little lies...
Merlin was fun, indeed! The first two seasons were a blast, with all their stupidity and humour and bromance and whatnot... Then, oh, then they thought "why don't we pour a drop of angst in the mix?" and they must have dropped the whole freaking bottle, 'cause it became a lot darker and even less plausible than before. Worse than that, what everyone was waiting for since the first episode, i.e. the magic reveal, happened in the most anticlimatic way EVER in the last ten minutes of the series finale. Right after Camlann. Camlann. Camlann as in Arthur's-final-battle-WHERE-HE'S-MORTALLY-WOUNDED. I mean, WTF? What about "let's all teach Arthur how magic can be beautiful and good so he can rule in peace and be the great king he's destined to be"?
I swear, it was a very sad ending, but I was just laughing and laughing in disbelief. XD It would have been better if they'd really forgot about Mordred, anyway, but they fucked up badly with him instead. And with Morgana. She was so beautiful, at the beginning, and then they morphed her into this kind of... psycho-witch, acting with not a single grain of logic. Just hilarious. XD
The Almighty Johnsons sounds like a lot of funny crap, that's why I'm saving it for a rainy day. Well, more like a rainy week: there's a limit to the number of episodes I can watch in a single day, whether I like it or not. XD
I totally agree with you about Camelot! Totally! The magic felt real, for a change, and I loved that. I loved the fact that it really came with a prize, a very high one, and that Merlin's talents were more of the strategic and make-believe kind than anything else. I loved Morgan, I loved many of the secondary characters, but Arthur and Guenevere? My goodness, they couldn't make them worse if they tried! I would have put Kay on the throne in a heartbeat, if I had a choice. He was cute. u_u
Ooooh, would you really pass me the links? *_* I'd love it. I'm really looking forward to read some of the comics, I've got a feeling that I'm gonna love that particular take on the characters very very much indeed. <3
As for American Gods, I've got it (in english, of course) as an ebook, if you'd like. ^^ It's a wonderful novel, with a wonderful BAMF Odin and a perfect son-of-a-bitch Loki and a marvellous assortment of very well modernized deities. I think you'll literally wolf it down, references to norse myths or not. ;)