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You could replace most of the dialogue here with the lyrics to Tubthumping and miss nothing.

Maaaaaan. I’m out until late, and there’s still no decent quality raw? Way to fail me, internetron.

Impressions:

I’ve been saying it a lot recently about this show and it’s probably because I’m pretty familiar with the PC game, but the pacing problems continue to really worry me. This episode barely went anywhere and did it slowly. The siege continued, Arawn had yet another vision of Pwyll and Primula telling him how awesome he is, and Arthur spent a third of the episode giving a speech to Taliesin to get the Brigantes to help. We’re down to 9 episodes left, 8 after the siege finishes next week. After they finish off Gaius, the show won’t even have an antagonist anymore, unless you count the evil empire, who decided two episodes ago that Arawn wasn’t causing problems for anybody.

As for the rest… meh. The insert song over Arawn’s dream/the siege didn’t really fit well, and it was pretty dumb to see the comic relief house elves giving each other bad pick-me-up pep talks and making jokes about broken barrels in the middle of their dumb apple orchard being on fire. "Ha ha, you’re so silly, Epona. Let’s joke about that while our homes burn." We already saw almost all of the action in the preview last week, which means sadly, no laser elves above and beyond what was already revealed. That just leaves lots of people telling each other to do their best for about twenty straight minutes. At least they are starting to get into the Myrddin stuff now instead of the one giant 30 minute vision Taliesin would have in… uh… at this pace… some time around episode 28. It’s a shame the show’s supposed to end at 26.

Preview:

Arthur vs Gaius and Arawn wakes up.