Daily Merlin Support

[hils]

I'm sure I can't be the only one angsting about what's going to happen in Merlin on Saturday, so I thought why not share. The joy of LJ is that there is bound to be at least one person out there feeling the way you do

So, this is your chance to talking about the upcoming episode. What do you think is going to happen? What do you want to happen? What are your coping mechanisms for getting through this week?

Talk about how you're feeling or offer support to the rest of us

I'll be doing one of these posts every day and another one on Sunday so we can wail and cling to each other.

And, go!

Comments

[dino-face.livejournal.com]

T______________T I am both excited about, and dreading Saturday every moment. So far I am getting through the week by avoiding anything to do with fandom so I have stuff to catch up on after next week is over, to cope with the lull (if there is one).

*bites nails* Hellllllllp.

[kelene.livejournal.com]

Right okay. So many people are speculating about Gaius's death in the next episode. IF THIS HAPPENS I WILL CRY. Merlin isn't ready for it! He needs someone there to knock him around the head and give him advice!

I'm coping this week simply because I'm too busy to think about anything other than dissertation! But there's no way I'm going to able to concentrate at work on Saturday night. D:

[birggitt.livejournal.com]

I'm in a rush right now, as I have to go to work in 10 minutes, but I wanted to let you know I've friended you, and damn! I need a support group to go over this week, and *yikes* hiatus! *laughs*

[lou-angel.livejournal.com]

I am going to need this so much
*clings*

I think my way of coping--

[syllic.livejournal.com]

--has mostly been to interpret the trailer freely.

When I first saw it, I think my reaction was pretty much the same as everyone else's: OMGArthurisDEAD?WTF After the emotional uplift of the fluttery cloaks, I suddenly felt ridiculously anxious (about a television show whose target audience is supposed to be less than half my age--Christ in a dragon cave).

I was looking at spoilers over at digitalspy (while attempting to figure out if a second season is forthcoming; it was my first foray into the spoiler world), though, and 'Arthur mortally wounded', and 'a close friend of Merlin's is killed' are two different spoilers. This made me take notice, because:

if Arthur really is dead, and Merlin goes to a much creepier version of Avalon to ensure his resurrection, I feel that this would raise incredibly problematic issues. Uther would rather have his son alive, no doubt, but to have him literally come back from the dead in the Court to End All Magic?

I've begun to think, more and more, that this will be not unlike the poison episode--that Merlin will still be in a position to fix what is wrong with Arthur by dealing with Nimueh, before Arthur actually dies. It is obvious from the trailer, though, that someone really is dead, and I wondered then if the friend was Gaius, who had attempted to heal Arthur and had somehow been killed in the process; if Morgana had foreseen further deaths and declared that this was 'only the beginning', rather than suggesting that Arthur's death was only the beginning. Doctor Who-slot shows are known for clever, suspense-heavy cuts for their previews, and I wondered if I had fallen prey to this in my OMGArthurisdeadWTF moment.

So I guess this is, really, how I am coping: escapism. I can't say it's preying on my mind at every moment, but I am concerned about how they plan to resolve this--and not thrilled at the idea that they might cliffhang the hell out of it and then not do a second season. The show has received some respectable reviews so far, but a large number of people still think it's the worse thing ever to have hit television--I think the pretty slash possibilities blind many of us at merlinxarthur to some of the utterly horrific plot twists.

Ho-hum. I bet when you said 'Daily Merlin Support', you didn't expect me to actually engage with this in therapy-like proportions.

Embarrassed at my attachment to this show, what what?

[reedsangel.livejournal.com]

i've sprained my ankle and so im sitting at home with nothing i can do. all i can think about is Merlin.
My head is full of stuff and speculation
HELP!

Re: I think my way of coping--

[syllic.livejournal.com]

er,worst thing, even.

[hils.livejournal.com]

So far I am getting through the week by avoiding anything to do with fandom so I have stuff to catch up on after next week is over
That's not a bad idea actually

*hugs*

[gmplatypus.livejournal.com]

I can't work out wether I'm more nervous over the final ep. of Merlin or my dissertation proposal deadline tomorrow....I have a fealing my lecturer would not like the answer. Whilst I liket he whole sailing boat thing as that feels ummm, how can I put it, more traditionally arthurain I DONT WANT ARTHER TO DIE!!!! The Beeb have said that it'll end on a clif hanger so ARTHUR CANNOT DIE as there is the possiblity of a second series (I will petition so HARD for them to do another series). Plus if it sucks they might as well cancel Christmas.

*Frantically trying to focus on georgian embroidery and not get distracted by Merlin and failing MISERABLY*

Ohhh and thanks a million for this post, I NEED to vent and no one at uni understands my pain...

[hils.livejournal.com]

If they're going to kill off Gaius (which sadly I think they will) then someone else needs to know Merlin's secret. He needs someone to confide in and angst with. Maybe Arthur will find out? Or Gwen or Morgana. Morgana seems more likely actually.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I've friended you back :) God, I think the hiatus will kill me if it ends on a cliffhanger

[hils.livejournal.com]

*pets* That's why I did it. I needed it too

*hugs*

[hils.livejournal.com]

GAH! You have my sympathies! Uh, watch some happy episodes to take your mind off it?

Write fanfic?

Re: I think my way of coping--

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! No, this is exactly the sort of thing I have been going through since I saw the trailer

I have been predicting Gaius's death for about 3 weeks since I saw the episode summary on Wikipedia so what you're saying actually makes a lot of sense. It never even occurred to me that when Merlin said 'You should not have killed my friend' he was actually talking about anyone other than Arthur

Bad as it may be (I do like Gaius a lot) I will be happy(ish) if the episode ends with Merlin and Arthur still alive

[hils.livejournal.com]

I don't want Arthur to die either! And I don't want a cliffhanger ending *pout* I want them all to live happily ever after :(

I understand your pain *hugs*

[kuhekabir.livejournal.com]

i hadnt heard that one yet...interesting...i really like gaius but honestly i just want the show to come back for a second season, lol, with arthur and merlin...so if gaius has to go...as sad as that will make me, i wouldnt mind...i just want season two...

hugs

Re: I think my way of coping--

[kuhekabir.livejournal.com]

intersting theory...

hugs

[lou-angel.livejournal.com]

Cliffhangers I can just about cope with as long as it's not suggesting that either Merlin or Arthur is dead for realz.
My initial thoughts when I saw the trailer (at about three in the morning having stumbled in from a party and insisting on watching Merlin before going to bed) was just OMG and lots of flailing and wailing. But then I thought that if Arthur died for real there is no way they'd spoil it to that extent. Right?

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yes, me too. So long as Merlin and Arthur are alive at the end of this weeks episode I'll be happy

[kuhekabir.livejournal.com]

gahhhhh...i wouldnt mind so much about a cliffie if i would know the show would come back for a second season before that happens...because even though i would go mental with the waiting, at least i would know that IT IS COMING...

*strangled squee*

and this was a very good idea to open up this thread...

my way to cope is to try and keep busy and not think about saturday but by doing that i am actually constantly thinking about saturday because i am trying to avoid thinking about it...does that make sense or is my mind going in a loop (wouldnt be the first time)

[hils.livejournal.com]

Nah, I mean it's possible Arthur will die but I don't think he'll stay dead if that's the case

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! My mind is in exactly the same loop

[lou-angel.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I meant - I don't think they'd have spoilt if he stayed dead. I don't think they even spoiled about the death in the last episode and that happened pretty early on.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd read spoilers for that so I knew it was coming. This time I am spoiler free apart from what was in the trailer

[lou-angel.livejournal.com]

For last week I'd just heard about Tom "facing possible death" and then things about Tauren which somehow made me think of Tureen and then all I could think of was soup.