Do y'all remember that time Uther married a troll?
Yeah, Beauty and the Beast was really not my favourite thing.
And the thing is, the actors did a really great job with what they were given, I think. The actress who played Catrina/the troll was really enjoyable, and seemed to be having a great time with it. I love the way she'd just sort of completely transform herself whenever she was the troll versus when she was Catrina. It was very physical, and very committed, and I was impressed. She was wonderful.
The other characters also had some pretty good moments, I have to say. The misunderstandings continue between Arthur and Merlin, Arthur stands up to his father, etc.
The thing is, I just really can't stand how it was written. I usually enjoy the show's humour, and I'm used to it giving me juvenile humour sometimes, but one thing I could have gone my whole life without seeing was an hour and half's worth of fart jokes.
Really, Merlin writers? This was our first two-parter? The one with the most fart sound effects ever used in a single episode of television?
I just can't stand TV where I'm cringing the entire time. I get physically uncomfortable.
And I'm not even going to go into everything wrong with the scene where Uther takes the troll to bed... I've been repressing those memories. Eugh.
There's really not much more to say. The fact that I'm cringing the entire time, and there's no real forward motion for any character's arcs, and I can't even think of a single thing that Morgana or Gwen did the entire episode, and one of the bad guys inexplicably had a tail...? Like, what was he supposed to be?
There's just too much about it that I found irredeemable, and it totally outweighed the good things about it. If that had been the first episode I'd seen, I never would have watched this show again.
Honestly. How young did they think their audience was? Even other kid's shows don't go overboard like this. And I should know, I watch my fair share of kid's shows.
Just... God. What were they thinking?
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