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[owlectomy]

I am catching up on Merlin, which continues to be awful yet weirdly compelling, which is the kind of thing you want to watch when I have a full-day migrainey thing going on so it's okay.

So, the rule is that if you see a woman over 35 years old, she's definitely magical and/or evil unless she's Merlin's mother, right?

...Not that the women under 35 fare much better...

ETA

Thinking about it, isn't that why there's essentially nowhere to go but slash in this show? The main relationships are all relationships between men -- Merlin and Arthur, of course, but also Arthur and his father, Merlin and Gaius. So we get these episodes where a woman arrives and disrupts one of these relationships, and that disruption isn't just emotional -- it's evil and magical in nature, and has to be gotten rid of by the end of the episode! The entire purpose of the woman being there is in fact to threaten and then reestablish the relationships between the men. Yes, there's Gwen, and I like Gwen, but ... one exception isn't much.

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[meganbmoore]

Your ETA describes Supernatural perfectly, too. Except the one exception part. (I read a book of essays on that show between S3 and S4, and it argued that because the role of women there is to be evil or challenge the relationships between men, it had a strong message of female power and I was "...")

[trouble]

I stopped watching around the end of Season 1, so in my world Merlin still has all of the Gwen/Morgana and it is lovely.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

So we get these episodes where a woman arrives and disrupts one of these relationships, and that disruption isn't just emotional -- it's evil and magical in nature

And this is different from the Arthurian cycle how? There Guinevere isn't even an exception.