You know, I’ve REALLY go to be thankful — in a bizarre sort of way — that Grub’s not a fan of Merlin.
No, really … !
It means there’s at least one TV show I can happily write about, right here.
Which does sound a little silly, now I come to mention it, doesn’t it … ?
But I’m ALSO very aware that Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar has been a little shy of material, just recently.
Life’s quiet at the moment.
What CAN I tell you … ?
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APART from one little thing … ?
I’ve just seen the first episode of the new fourth series of Merlin —The Darkest Hour: Part 1 — and I’ve come away impressed.
Until someone comes up with a synonym for ‘impressed’ that I like the sound of!
(I’m running out of thesaurus entries. And thesauri, before you ask.)
But at any rate … ?
At any rate, I managed to see The Darkest Hour: Part 1, and came away having thoroughly enjoyed the series 4 opening episode.
The Darkest Hour: Part 1 opens a year after the finish of series 3, with a small group of Camelot’s knights on the path of a suspicious women with a cart.
A woman who turns out to be the gone-to-the-bad Morgana — Katie McGrath, as ever — who’s transporting her dying sister, Morgause — Emilia Fox — to the Isle of the Blessed.
Not for any kind of healing, for those of us familiar with the legends.
No …
Morgause is helping her sister in the only way she has left.
By being sacrificed.
At midnight, on the night of Samhain’s Eve.
Allowing for the vail between the world of the living and the dead to be broken, and allowing both the spirits of the dead to run riot.
And the scary figure of The Cailleich to show herself to both Morgana: a figure who warns Morgana about the magic worker who will be her doom.
And capping all that … ?
Capping all that we ALSO find that Arthur, and Camelot, have been receiving help from Arthur’s Uncle Agravain.
As has Morgana, as this episode makes perfectly clear …
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Now …
I’m going to happily admit, I’m a huge fan of Merlin and have been, this day 1.
But this opening episode, darker than the previous three as it is … ?
Yes …
I think it bodes for an interesting series …
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