I'm in Germany, and my only access to English books is an international library...but I'm sure I'll find it eventually. :)
Ha, yeah, the live-in-denial-of-the-ending is the strategy I adopted for living with A:tLA. Too many plot devices popped out of nowhere all too conveniently for my taste in that finale. Which I think maybe is exactly why I can be at peace with Merlin's ending: they let the story carry them to the end it naturally led to, rather than suddenly trying to force it backwards down a road that maybe would have made sense at the planning stage, but kind of comes out of nowhere.
Though I do admit, it was really frigging surprising when Arthur died. Because you know, you go, "Meh, they've got a whole episode! They won't just let him find out about Merlin and die." But he does.
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Re: Part 2 II B
Date: 2013-03-11 06:23 am (UTC)Ha, yeah, the live-in-denial-of-the-ending is the strategy I adopted for living with A:tLA. Too many plot devices popped out of nowhere all too conveniently for my taste in that finale. Which I think maybe is exactly why I can be at peace with Merlin's ending: they let the story carry them to the end it naturally led to, rather than suddenly trying to force it backwards down a road that maybe would have made sense at the planning stage, but kind of comes out of nowhere.
Though I do admit, it was really frigging surprising when Arthur died. Because you know, you go, "Meh, they've got a whole episode! They won't just let him find out about Merlin and die." But he does.