The Uther-conundrum
Oct. 22nd, 2012 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13Random Merlin thought that popped into my head today because work was sooo boring:
We have had a couple of character names for episode titles, most notably "the coming of Arthur" (all yeh who haven`t sniggered, cast the first stone) but Lancelot, Gwaine, Guinivere and Uther all had a go (or two or three) as well.
Only notice that in Uther`s case, it was always his full name aka The Tears of Uther Pendragon or The Death Song of Uther Pendragon.
I can maybe explain away Lance, Gwaine and Gwen on account of not having any last name, "du Lac" wasn`t Lancelot`s, just a pun on the legends and the episode in question. But Arthur most certainly has and his episode titles didn`t read as "The Coming of Arthur Pendragon" or "La Morte D`Arthur Pendragon".
So why go there with Uther? Did they think the audience would get really confused and go "there are so many Uthers running around, good thing the episode won`t be about Uther Smith then, or, god forbid, Uther Jones"? *g*
Yeah, like I said, work was really boring today. :)
We have had a couple of character names for episode titles, most notably "the coming of Arthur" (all yeh who haven`t sniggered, cast the first stone) but Lancelot, Gwaine, Guinivere and Uther all had a go (or two or three) as well.
Only notice that in Uther`s case, it was always his full name aka The Tears of Uther Pendragon or The Death Song of Uther Pendragon.
I can maybe explain away Lance, Gwaine and Gwen on account of not having any last name, "du Lac" wasn`t Lancelot`s, just a pun on the legends and the episode in question. But Arthur most certainly has and his episode titles didn`t read as "The Coming of Arthur Pendragon" or "La Morte D`Arthur Pendragon".
So why go there with Uther? Did they think the audience would get really confused and go "there are so many Uthers running around, good thing the episode won`t be about Uther Smith then, or, god forbid, Uther Jones"? *g*
Yeah, like I said, work was really boring today. :)
