Pretty pretty lights

[darkemeralds]

Ah, Saturday night. Ah, September. Ah, internet.





It's warm, and moonlit. The fountain is fountaining. The crickets are cricketing. Graydie the stray cat is hanging around. And I'm watching tee-vee on my computer.

Seriously: if someone would bring me a martini right now, I'd be in heaven.

Comments

[bluemeridian]

Such a lovely fall evening!

[darkemeralds]

These are the moments that make me all gloaty and smug about the awesome part of the world I live in.

Sometimes, deep in February, I take it all back. :D

[donutsweeper]

oh AWESOME, what a wonderfully relaxing spot you have there

[darkemeralds]

All it lacks is a wait staff from the pub down the street, really.

[kis]

Eeee!!! That picture makes me all kinds of ridiculously happy.

[darkemeralds]

No raccoons, though.

Damn, I'm enjoying Merlin. And my back yard.

[kis]

Did you see the last episode? It reminded me of Buffy, in terms of series structure. Two angsty episodes, so let's have a daft one. :)

Am more of an Arthur girl myself (despite his low wattage IQ) but love Merlin to bits too.

[darkemeralds]

Yeah, I could live forever without an episode of any show that features farting. It wasn't without redeeming features, but they were thin on the ground.

True, though (and good audience retention technique generally) that after two dark and heavily serious episodes they kind of needed a light one.

I'm enjoying the actual character arc of Morgana. I mean, she actually changes due to actual forces on her character. Katie MacGrath (is that right?) is only medium-good, but they give her a lot to work with and she sells it, I think.

I went back and watched the first couple of episodes, and I can see that the character arcs of Merlin, Uther and Arthur have been a bit more subtle, but they're definitely there. Guinevere, not so much.

Oh dear, I could go on. And I probably shall.

[kis]

I quite like the broad outlines of Morgana's story but I could do with less heavy-handed direction. (Look sly, Katie! Look slier!) (Hee! She does that in Firefly terms too).

Arthur really needs to find out about Merlin's magic soon. It's been bugging me for ages that he doesn't.

What did you think of Sins of the Father? My favourite episode. And, blimey, Bradley can actually act! Morgause (Emelia Fox of the Fox dynasty) is brilliant.

[darkemeralds]

I'm not in deep enough yet to know episode titles. Had to go check back. Yes! That was decidedly the strongest episode in the series so far, I thought, and Bradley was wonderful in it. I thought, wow, where did all that acting come from? Not that he's bad--he's not, he's very watchable and never makes me wince with woodenness or anything, it's just that next to Colin Morgan most of them do seem a bit...Less-Than, you know?

I was puzzled about whether the image of Ygraine really was false, or whether Morgause just showed him the truth. I need to watch it again.

I need to watch them all again. It's a mark of impending immersion in a new fandom that I'm ready, willing and illegally able to do just that. (And that this single Merlin icon I've had for three days seems inadequate and overused.)

[kis]

I should really download the BBC's iPlayer because I can get the episodes legally. I'm not quite hooked enough to make the effort. But I need to know about Ygraine too. My feeling is that everything was a part-truth, but not all of it.

And yes, I had the same reaction to Bradley in that. It's interesting, how he started out (in real life, according to the fans) as the outgoing one, whereas now he tries to take a back seat.

[darkemeralds]

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Colin is better at celebrity than Bradley is.

I hadn't thought of it till now, but I can totally see the similarity between this particular Arthur and a certain Sanzo priest.

[kis]

And don't tell me you didn't notice that Colin has the ears to play Goku. :)

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Colin is better at celebrity than Bradley is.

Yes. Bradley's bluster and teasing at the start of their working relationship might have been more about him feeling uncomfortable and assuming that Colin was suffering even more. It's cute - that wanting to take care of people tendency.

Tangentially, have you seen this? You can imagine the delight of the RPSers. Like scribblemoose.

[darkemeralds]

No sound here at the office, so I'll revisit it when I get home, but the sharing of iPod earphones--and in armor--is just too yummy for words.

[tehomet]

*is jealous*

Particularly like the fairy lights. They are cute.

[darkemeralds]

I was pleased with those. Got 'em at IKEA for reasonably cheap, and they really do light up the eating/viewing area quite pleasantly. Also, by sheer coincidence, the string fit exactly up and down each strut of the umbrella.

That was nice for my OCD-tending mind.