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Oct. 22nd, 2011 11:37 amI've never been a person who's wanted to see my fannish slashy subtext become canon. That's half the fun of subtext, being able to extrapolate what you want out of it.
And it's always kind of bothered me when people *really* want to see Merlin and Arthur have a romantic relationship on screen. Like I was still part of that old-school mindset - 'DO YOU ACTUALLY EXPECT THEM TO SHOW A GAY RELATIONSHIP ON A FAMILY TV SHOW'
Except I kept thinking about it, and legends (Arthur/Gwen) aside, if Merlin was a girl, they probably would be heading towards a relationship by now. Every show in the whole wide world with a male lead and a female lead does that, right? But he's not a girl, so we're back to the Gay On TV argument. Then I remembered Xena : Warrior Princess. Xena loved Gabrielle and vice versa and no one kicked up a stink there :( That's a family show - fantasy, action, comedy, drama, just like Merlin, and it was a very popular show and no one said anything about their relationship!
Not really sure where I'm going with this post, tbh.
Oh and I was also thinking about The Reveal and how it will happen and how I hope against hope that it'll be perfect. It'll have to be under duress, surely. Merlin will have no other choice. Unless they go the 'Arthur knew before Merlin told him' route, which would be interesting though they did that on Lois and Clark and though I really loved it when I was 13, not sure it would satisfy me now.
Any other TV shows that had to deal with a secret reveal? Never really watched Smallville.
Silly rambling post. Ugh.
And it's always kind of bothered me when people *really* want to see Merlin and Arthur have a romantic relationship on screen. Like I was still part of that old-school mindset - 'DO YOU ACTUALLY EXPECT THEM TO SHOW A GAY RELATIONSHIP ON A FAMILY TV SHOW'
Except I kept thinking about it, and legends (Arthur/Gwen) aside, if Merlin was a girl, they probably would be heading towards a relationship by now. Every show in the whole wide world with a male lead and a female lead does that, right? But he's not a girl, so we're back to the Gay On TV argument. Then I remembered Xena : Warrior Princess. Xena loved Gabrielle and vice versa and no one kicked up a stink there :( That's a family show - fantasy, action, comedy, drama, just like Merlin, and it was a very popular show and no one said anything about their relationship!
Not really sure where I'm going with this post, tbh.
Oh and I was also thinking about The Reveal and how it will happen and how I hope against hope that it'll be perfect. It'll have to be under duress, surely. Merlin will have no other choice. Unless they go the 'Arthur knew before Merlin told him' route, which would be interesting though they did that on Lois and Clark and though I really loved it when I was 13, not sure it would satisfy me now.
Any other TV shows that had to deal with a secret reveal? Never really watched Smallville.
Silly rambling post. Ugh.
