keeping the fun parts

[cimorene]

For this poll, no real knowledge of Merlin, the new tv show and its associated fandom, is necessary. (In fact, that's kind of the case with the whole show and the whole fandom, too: no briefing required, dive right in!)

[Poll #1346855]

I kind of love that the popular choice, for question #2, is to slash Gwen with Morgana in the young and shiny Merlin fandom. And then there's OT4, which hadn't occurred to me, but I kind of love that someone did that, too.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I would still say that in most of the stories I have read with Gwen/Morgana B-plots, even if the literal/plot-level events of the story did not have the purpose of taking Gwen out of the equation - which isn't necessary since I gather that there is no proper romance with her and Arthur in the show yet - it's still the primary, or one of the primary, meta-functions. How much merit or popularity the pairing has on its own and how it functions in canon, or in individual stories, is not the same as how it functions in the fanon of Arthur/Merlin, which is what I was talking about.