faerymab
Citizen
""With evil all around me, I can do nothing but evil to survive."
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Post by faerymab on Mar 20, 2013 15:03:50 GMT
So beautiful!
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Post by morganlove on Mar 21, 2013 15:30:10 GMT
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Post by Mabforever on Mar 26, 2013 23:58:01 GMT
Love the pics anything for a lil more Mab <3
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Post by sleepyqueenie on Aug 18, 2013 7:04:55 GMT
I found Merlin in another outfit Also, the beauty!
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Post by himiko on Aug 18, 2013 16:19:47 GMT
Never seen that Merlin pic before, good find! It's hard to tell from such a close up image, but it looks more elaborate than some of his other outfits- maybe it was initially meant to be a costume he wears during his time at court with Uther or Arthur?
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Post by Arwen17 on Sept 23, 2013 13:14:51 GMT
Never seen that Merlin pic before, good find! It's hard to tell from such a close up image, but it looks more elaborate than some of his other outfits- maybe it was initially meant to be a costume he wears during his time at court with Uther or Arthur? Mab bought him a dog collar.
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Post by himiko on Sept 23, 2013 23:41:31 GMT
*chortlesnort* It's a possibility Plus, he's not wearing the helmet, which is always good.
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Post by sleepyqueenie on Oct 5, 2013 16:41:03 GMT
Yes, he should have a team Mab outfit.
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Post by Arwen17 on Oct 6, 2013 12:35:07 GMT
*now has an image in her head of Merlin wearing a t-shirt with the words "Mab for president" across it*
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Post by himiko on Oct 6, 2013 13:36:21 GMT
And a deeply unhappy expression? XD
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Post by sleepyqueenie on Oct 7, 2013 18:54:05 GMT
Only president? I still vote Mab for world domination.
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Jan 22, 2018 23:19:58 GMT
I found where Merlin wears the outfit shown in one of the above posts: Since this is one of the only frames where Merlin is visible at Arthur's wedding, the promo photo leads me to think there is a cut scene. It's easy to believe more existed at one time. Arthur and Guinevere's wedding feels very incomplete and heavily edited as it is. Or perhaps the photo is from the deleted scene detailed in the shooting script where Merlin gives to Arthur the tiny round table he's meant to plant. In later scenes of the miniseries you can see the round table does in fact have roots and is anchored to the floor by them - as though it grew in that very spot.
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Post by himiko on Jan 28, 2018 19:14:51 GMT
Well spotted, I'd never noticed that before! A royal wedding would certainly explain why Merlin is wearing a different, more elaborate outfit. I think you may be right about the missing scene. I think the Arthurian stuff was really cut thin in the series, and whilst I can understand why they cut the scene about the Round Table having roots and being planted (it doesn't really add much to the story to know that the round table is slightly supernatural, TBH), I do think they could have done with an extra scene to beef out Arthur and Guinevere's characters before the wedding. There's the ominous wind that causes the doors to clatter, which I assume is meant to be an omen that their marriage is doomed (or perhaps a sign that Mab is watching) - but Arthur seems to be largely marrying Guinevere to fulfill his duty as king and to "make up for" his night with Morgan, not out of feelings for Guinevere herself. Setting Guinevere up as a passionate woman who won't be content simply to wait for Arthur in all things might go some way towards actual character building, and they could have shown Merlin being concerned about the match from the start... I don't know, anyway...
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Post by Morgan le Fay on Jan 31, 2018 21:22:59 GMT
Thank you.
The table may have not been necessary to the plot but it would have been very charming. Details such as this could congregate with others to make the series more memorable to viewers. It was the supernatural and magical elements that most enticed me when I viewed the series for the first time as a nine-year-old. Also the clever camera effects. They stayed with me, and I never forgot certain scenes containing elements of interest; Mab moving from one place to another instantaneously, the Lady of the Lake, etc. Matters important to the plot faded from my memory with time.
Agreed. This is just another example of why Merlin should have been three episodes.
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Post by Arwen17 on Apr 11, 2018 14:57:52 GMT
@-morganlefay wow super-sharp eye to spot merlin and his dog collar in the wedding scene!! Yeah the wedding scene definitely felt very brief and cut-up. @-himiko I don't know if that wind was meant to be ominous or not. It was windy because Arthur insisted on having the wedding in Camelot even though they weren't finished building it yet. I found the outdoors wedding charming and rather "pagan" lol, since a proper Christian wedding is always inside a church. Their church was only half-built. Sky-church! In the books, Guinevere's family and herself only recently converted to Christianity and several pages reference that she still has minor beliefs in Paganism, (though I believe they worshipped a different pagan goddess of horses or something, not Mab).I'll have to have another look. EDIT:I found it! Part 3 the end of magic pg.49 Restless, she threw back the covers and got to her feet. A small vigil light burned before a statue of the Blessed Virgin in the corner of her bedchamber. Guinevere turned toward the icon and tried to pray, but in her thoughts the words of the Litany were brushed aside by older, darker prayers. To Epona, mother of mares, guardian of the Iceni. To Melusine All-Mother, who watched over the women of Britain. Goddesses of fruitfulness, of love, of children. Help me...So like, I guess Mab kinda answered Guinevere's prayers?? I don't get the impression Guinevere was praying for the strength to remain faithful to Arthur. She was praying for love and happiness, aka Lancelot. pg.155 Arthur execute the Queen? The Iceni, Guinevere's people, were still half-Pagan. And because of that, when Arthur executed their Princess for something many of them did not consider a crime, they would rise up against him. There would be war. That was what Mab wanted.Oh btw, lol, Elaine (lancelot's original wife) had magic too. end of magic, pg.53 Elaine's own father had been a great sorcerer, and she had some small magics of her own. Instinctively she reached out with them, and to her desolation they told her what her heart already knew: that this was a true vision. What she saw in the mirror was truly happening, just as she saw it.So Elaine used her magic to find out if Mab's magic was telling her the truth or not. Weird.... you'd think Elaine would wonder WHO was sending her such a vision and WHY. But maybe she can't sense that kind of thing. But I would still wonder who's sending me mysterious visions via mirror. To help or to hurt... even if it happens to be true visions. Thank you. Agreed. This is just another example of why Merlin should have been three episodes. hahaha! If we had been given 3 episodes, we would have said it should have been 4 instead. There's always room to add more to a story.
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