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Hype Podcast

Special #4 – A ‘Merlin’ Retrospective

Hosted by Pamela Gocobachi, Selina Wilken, Donya Abramo, Tariq Kyle

September 20, 2015

It’s here. HYPE Podcast’s Merlin Special. Selina, Pam, Kyle and Donya reminisce about one of the silliest, most wonderful, heartbreaking shows of all time, try to answer questions left by the finale, discuss the impact of Merlin and Arthur’s beautiful bond, and much more.

Seven years ago, on September 20, 2008, Merlin premiered on BBC. And clearly, we’re still not over it. We bet you guys aren’t, either, so let’s celebrate with a podcast (like there’s any other way!).

Shownotes:
– Why do we still feel so strongly about Merlin three years later?
– Was there anything we would have liked the finale to have done differently?
– Should the show have wrapped up more loose ends, or does the beauty lie in its incompleteness?
– Leaving it open-ended: keeping the fandom alive?
– As much as we loved the finale, we have grumps about Morgana
– The magical voice of Kyle appears!
– Speaking about female characters… let’s talk about Gwen
– For some reason Kyle feels the need to hate on Gaius?!
– No Merlin podcast is complete without a Dolma shoutout
– Merthur: hell yeah we ship it!
– (After all, we did write The “platonic” love story of Merlin and Arthur article)
– Should the obvious “I love you” have been verbalised?
– We have a love/hate relationship with the epilogue
– When is Arthur going to come back anyway?!
– The big question: is Merlin permanently old? (NO!)
– Gwen/Leon 4ever
– We take some user questions: How would the show have been different if Merlin had revealed his magic sooner? Do we wish he had?
– Awesome things on Tumblr keeping the fandom alive: our fave is Aggressive Hufflepuff Arthur
– We talk about upcoming cast projects we’re particularly excited for (cough Underworld)
– Yay literature! We share some Arthurian Legends recommendations
– A very special message from Alex Vlahos!
– More listener comments: Did we like the epilogue? Did Gwen allow magic in Camelot? Was Kilgharrah full of crap?
– We share our random cast run-ins (spoiler alert: Selina and Donya both lived in Cardiff when the show was on the air)
– Hogwarts Sorting lightning round!

Thanks for listening, and thank you for all your comments and questions. Keep the Merlin fandom alive — we’ll work on petitioning the Julians for that epilogue!

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