6 thoughts on “Episode 12: Ship: Gwen/Arthur [Part 2]”

1. I’m glad you guys brought up Gwen’s lack of pregnancy thing and how the show straight up never addresses it, because it’s always really bothered me. I think we know the writers only used aspects of the medieval setting when it was convenient for the plot and basically ignored it the rest of the time. But Gwen not falling pregnant for three god damn years after marriage would have been a really big deal – especially because the show made such a thing about Arthur marrying a servant to begin with.

   I can buy that the people of Camelot would could around to the idea of their king marrying for love rather than station, because by that point Arthur had already shown that he didn’t need marriage to create alliances and make the kingdom strong. But then for him not to have any heirs to inherit his legacy, and keep Camelot in a position of power and security? Yeah, no. The people would not have been okay with that. Who the hell was supposed to rule the kingdom after Arthur and Gwen died?

   I mean, obviously the showrunners wanted the end of the series to be tragic on every level – basically everybody is dead, Merlin is burdened with awaiting Arthur’s return, and there are no more Pendragons – but doing it at the expense of making contextual and narrative sense is just really shitty. They wanted us to believe that Arthur was like “Yep, I put all my energy into building this great kingdom, the greatest this land has ever known. Oh, but I didn’t bother to ensure it continued after my death by banging my wife.” I know they couldn’t address it like that specifically, because family show and all that, but they could’ve done *something*.

   I really think they should’ve at least had Gwen say she thought she was pregnant in the last episode. Their last scene together in bed in the tent would’ve been the perfect opportunity. Her not having any babies before this point still would’ve been a bit questionable I guess, but it would’ve at least indicated that they’d been trying. And would’ve shown that the writers had actually thought about this very important part of royal medieval life. Ideally, I would’ve liked them to address it more directly and had something about Arthur and Gwen not being able to conceive, but evidently that wasn’t something they wanted to go into in the last season. To which I say booooooooo but then again, I say that about basically the entirety of the last season anyway lol

   I mean, I love this show, obviously. But boy does it drive me crazy!

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2. Camelot_drabble on LJ has Arwen pairing stories every week. It may be only 1-2 people but they are still posting.
   Another great episode. I’m really enjoying them.

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4. I just listened to this and I really liked the discussion about the lack of a pregnancy, as well as a lack of discussion around that topic. I’d be very interested in hearing why the writers decided not to discuss that topic within the show, but I guess we’ll never know.

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