Yet that makes it interesting, because there really aren't that many stories where a friendship and a romance can be compared, and have the friendship win out. (Ignoring the fact that one could refer to Merlin and Arthur's relationship as a romance...)
Mordred, though, I felt actually stood there because he wanted to die. He was never like Morgana: he turned to her side out of grief, because he was suddenly so alone. It makes my heart ache to think how he must have felt. He turned aside everything he believed in for Arthur, and yet Arthur knowingly took away the one and only person outside of Camelot that Mordred loved. He must have felt so abandoned, so lost to know that not even Merlin would help him. I think that all he wanted was to stab Arthur–and once he had, he had nothing left to live for and was happy to die.
Hm...it's not that I like the love triangle. In fact, they generally annoy me. I only like this one when it's really played out as a triangle: as in, each of the three loves the other two equally. And when they're happy to live like this, then I like it. What they did was sort of a cop-out. Gwen pledges her love to Lancelot, then falls for Arthur, then Lancelot dies for Arthur for Gwen's sake, then he's enchanted into briefly seducing Gwen just long enough to mess up her relationship with Arthur...and is gone. I almost wish they'd just left the love triangle bit out of it.
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Re: Part 2 II A
Date: 2013-03-11 06:18 am (UTC)Mordred, though, I felt actually stood there because he wanted to die. He was never like Morgana: he turned to her side out of grief, because he was suddenly so alone. It makes my heart ache to think how he must have felt. He turned aside everything he believed in for Arthur, and yet Arthur knowingly took away the one and only person outside of Camelot that Mordred loved. He must have felt so abandoned, so lost to know that not even Merlin would help him. I think that all he wanted was to stab Arthur–and once he had, he had nothing left to live for and was happy to die.
Hm...it's not that I like the love triangle. In fact, they generally annoy me. I only like this one when it's really played out as a triangle: as in, each of the three loves the other two equally. And when they're happy to live like this, then I like it. What they did was sort of a cop-out. Gwen pledges her love to Lancelot, then falls for Arthur, then Lancelot dies for Arthur for Gwen's sake, then he's enchanted into briefly seducing Gwen just long enough to mess up her relationship with Arthur...and is gone. I almost wish they'd just left the love triangle bit out of it.