![]() ![]() The knights awake, and move around underneath their cowls with wide, slightly slo-mo gestures. Very articulate, gel, Moragause, but I can’t help feeling that raising undead knights isn’t the purpose for which Captain Awkward is always telling us to “use our words”. The chanting follows the Merlin model of spell-casting, which is rather like an Anglo-Saxon version of Harry Potter’s Latin magic – it sounds enough like the language to sound convincing, but not so much that you can’t get the general gist if you only speak English 1. We open with Morgause in a ruined castle chanting near some spiderwebs, because if you’d managed to sign a performer like Emilia Fox, who can do this kind of nonsense without either winking at the camera every ten second or being plain annoying, you’d give her the opening scene too. After lurching entertainingly around medieval legends and high-school romance plots for most of the season, the show seems to have snapped into a more straightforward fantasy mode. This seems to be the principle upon which this episode of Merlin is written, and I’m not sure it’s a principle I can disagree with. What do the people want? A combination of Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who. ![]() Emilia Fox as Morgause, acting everyone outta sight without even turning round.
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