Maybe they're big believers in the collective unconscious over there? Or perhaps they're just really fond of redundancy?
Okay, um, on Merlin the whole destiny thing is a crock of shit. The dragon made it all up, at first he was just trolling Merlin for shits and giggles, because there wasn't a whole lot to do in that cave. But then he noticed that Merlin, well, believed him and seemed highly suggestible when the subject of Arthur or destiny came up, so he started turning up the "glorious future of Albion" and "the witch is not to be trusted" rhetoric, by way of setting up the eventual destruction of Camelot in the battle between Arthur and Morgana, wiping out Uther's kingdom and both his children in one fell swoop.
Which is why the dragon turns on Camelot as soon as Merlin releases him, because why play a long game with an uncertain ending when you can just burn everything to the ground now. And also why Merlin almost immediately goes back to trusting him as a reliable source of information because he has basically no identity by this point outside of his "destiny" and can't countenance, even for a second, that he might have been wrong about this.
tl;dr Merlin is the story of a well-meaning young man's transformation into a hubristic dick who will be the ultimate destruction of everything he holds dear.
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Date: 2012-08-27 09:48 pm (UTC)Okay, um, on Merlin the whole destiny thing is a crock of shit. The dragon made it all up, at first he was just trolling Merlin for shits and giggles, because there wasn't a whole lot to do in that cave. But then he noticed that Merlin, well, believed him and seemed highly suggestible when the subject of Arthur or destiny came up, so he started turning up the "glorious future of Albion" and "the witch is not to be trusted" rhetoric, by way of setting up the eventual destruction of Camelot in the battle between Arthur and Morgana, wiping out Uther's kingdom and both his children in one fell swoop.
Which is why the dragon turns on Camelot as soon as Merlin releases him, because why play a long game with an uncertain ending when you can just burn everything to the ground now. And also why Merlin almost immediately goes back to trusting him as a reliable source of information because he has basically no identity by this point outside of his "destiny" and can't countenance, even for a second, that he might have been wrong about this.
tl;dr Merlin is the story of a well-meaning young man's transformation into a hubristic dick who will be the ultimate destruction of everything he holds dear.