Okay, so in this episode, we have Gaius’ old flame, Alice,
returning to Camelot and setting up shop as a healer. Uther gets wind of these
miraculous healings and flips ship because the peasants aren’t dying when clearly they should be. So obviously magic must be involved. Okay, in this case, he’s
totally right, but whatever. Uther demands that the magic user be found, but Gaius
covers for her, lying to Uther and saying it was just the skillful use of herbs.
As it turns out, Alice is in league with a Manticore (think
reptilian cat with the tail of a scorpion and the face of a particularly ugly
baby – with those wing things around its face) who wants Uther dead. (Get in
line, creepy little reptile scorpion cat!) Alice doesn’t mind killing Uther,
but she doesn’t want Gaius framed, but she’s under the thrall of the creature,
so whatcha gonna do?
So Alice moves in with Gaius (to make it easier for Merlin
to creep on her) who kicks Merlin out of his room, and in the course of his
creeping, he sees Alice um…milking the Manitcore’s tail for its venom. I can’t
begin to tell you how disturbing this scene is. We’re talking orgasm face and
sex noises on the part of the Manticore. This is *not* okay, people.
But anyway, Merlin sees this and deduces that Alice is up to
no good. He warns Gaius, but Gaius refuses to believe it. Merlin shows him the
creature’s box under Alice’s bed, but of course it’s empty as the Manicore has
gone back to its regular hell dimension. Merlin also researches the creature in Geoffrey’s
books. (Seriously, does that dude just live in the library?)
Meanwhile, Alice, under the guise of helping Gaius, poisons
Uther’s daily medicine and he falls gravely ill. In fact, he’s dying. Huzzah!
Not so fast, gentle viewers. Arthur deduces that the only thing it could be is
the potion Gaius had given to Uther. But Merlin saves the day by blaming Alice
and she goes to the dungeon while Gaius frantically tries to save Uther’s life.
When Gaius visits her later, he realizes she’s under the
thrall of the Manicore and he and Merlin figure out how to destroy the beast to
free Alice from its clutches and cure Uther. So they summon the creepy little
reptile scorpion cat and prevent it from returning it to its hell dimension and
destroy it.
After Uther recovers, he decides that Alice must still die
even though she was under the Manticore’s control when she tried to kill him. And
low and behold, the escaped prisoner bells ring because Camelot’s dungeon is
the least secure in all the land.
Okay...now for the questions.
1. If I’d written this episode...I would have made the harvesting of the Manticore venom far less...sex-like.
2. The thing I loved/hated most about
this episode. Hated how sort of boring and pointless this episode was. It's another monster. Merlin creeps around and spies on people and because he's a dedicated creeper figures out what's up. This episode just feels like...mostly filler.
3.
Something you’ve never noticed about
this episode before. The complete absence of Gwen and Morgana. However, to be fair, I didn't notice it until Jen pointed it out.
4. Favorite Costume. Alice's lovely knitted shawl. I couldn't find a really good shot of it, so you'll just have to trust me.
5. Here is Proof of some random head canon I’ve created. I've got nothing for this episode.
6. What Merthur moment did Jess have
the naughtiest thoughts about? Definitely when Arthur was training - Merlin was holding up rings, and Arthur, was, um...thrusting his lance through them...
7. What made Jen lose her shit (in a
good or bad way) in a bad way? The creepy sexualization of the venom extraction. And also the Manticore in general. Creepy little fuck...
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