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fandomsecrets2013-03-02 03:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-03-02 03:53 pm
[ SECRET POST #2251 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2251 ⌋
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Gwen went from a badass blacksmith's daughter who could hold her own in a fight to a flower-arranging floral arrangement who parroted everything Merlin said to Arthur but with boobs attached IN ONE EPISODE. What they did to her was terrible! She stopped being a person and started being a love interest, then a prospective wife, then a wife. The number of episodes in which she did NOT get kidnapped, bespelled, or somehow bamboozled into being a plot device for Arthur's growth were slim to none.
The episodes in which she actually flexed her independent Queen muscles were wonderful but way too few. We saw practically none of her growth and acceptance of her role, or the trouble that she absolutely would have faced at court from being a peasant turned queen. It was just 'she's GWEN! of ~course everyone loves her!' I found it weak and forced. But then I felt that way about her entire relationship with Arthur and only warmed to them in the very last season.
Obviously her character development wasn't as huge a disaster as Morgana's but the only way Gwen could be say to have been consistent was in the fact that, barring season one, she remained the exact same thing until almost the end of the show: a story point/victim/hostage used to push Arthur's story. As such an important part of the legend, she got shafted big time and it still pisses me off.
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Sometimes like to pretend the show never went past one season.
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I've started to think of characters as completely different characters from season to season and I usually have to "pick" one when trying for a characterization in any other fics or AUs (and I almost always pick the initial appearance over anything else - snarky big sis Morgana beats evil cutout Morgana anyday).
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It's not even that I have high expectations, since the overall campiness is what draws me in, but the series feels like it wastes so many ideas. Instead of being the au it initially was (what if Merlin was a teen, and met Arthur in his teens also!), and subverting these characters by imagining them in different situations, it rolls back into some awful melodrama that retells the myths in a half-baked fashion.
Snarky big sis Morgana vs Dastardly Morgana isn't even a competition.
And Gwen's characterization bothers me because it's like everything that was introduced about her was pushed aside to make her all about being in love with Arthur. She had a background as a blacksmith, her father was murdered due to mistrial, she had friendships and relationships with other characters. And then where did it all go? aruthruarthurarthurahruthAUGH—
Yes. I will take each season as various aus of each other.