Merlin 1.11

I might be completely and irrevocably in love with this show. I was an Arthuriana baby, and I haven't had much of an excuse to get all bubbly about Camelot for a while. And honestly, when your showrunners are publicly saying things like this: "It is a very, very intense friendship. All epic tales have some elements of homo-eroticism in them, so we were always going to pose these sort of questions. These are men fighting with swords who get up to desperate things" - well, this is maybe what pure, uncut fangirl catnip looks like.

( spoilers for 1.11 behind the cut, along with mythological babbling and an analysis of the monarchy. )