So what you like is a threesome, not a triangle. To me, "love triangle" by definition means that the participants aren't content to live that way, nor love each other equally (or one loves two equally, but the two don't necessarily love each other.) This is just arguing definitions though - obviously you define "triangle" the way I define "threesome."
I couldn't really sympathize with Mordred at all. Or maybe I did, but by that point I was too annoyed withe season to sympathize with him in the right way. I mean, when it comes right down to it, Merlin blew the whole thing with Mordred from the jump, because he treated him like an enemy the entire time so of COURSE he becomes one. I do think that at the end Mordred had a "what have I done?!" moment and probably welcomed death, as you say. And yes, that was heartbreaking in a "you're a dumbass" kind of way... but like I said, at that point I was pissed off.
I see every relationship as a romance...or as a not-romance. Basically, I widdle every relationship down to love and ignore who is actually kissing... so, yeah, to me it wasn't about friendship coming out on top of romance. It was about Arthur accepting who Merlin was and who he was in the face of great prejudice against it, which like I said, was the only part that I liked. :P
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Re: Part 2 II A
Date: 2013-03-11 06:29 am (UTC)I couldn't really sympathize with Mordred at all. Or maybe I did, but by that point I was too annoyed withe season to sympathize with him in the right way. I mean, when it comes right down to it, Merlin blew the whole thing with Mordred from the jump, because he treated him like an enemy the entire time so of COURSE he becomes one. I do think that at the end Mordred had a "what have I done?!" moment and probably welcomed death, as you say. And yes, that was heartbreaking in a "you're a dumbass" kind of way... but like I said, at that point I was pissed off.
I see every relationship as a romance...or as a not-romance. Basically, I widdle every relationship down to love and ignore who is actually kissing... so, yeah, to me it wasn't about friendship coming out on top of romance. It was about Arthur accepting who Merlin was and who he was in the face of great prejudice against it, which like I said, was the only part that I liked. :P