Fangerlin

BBC One's latest Doctor Who replacement - Merlin - requires minimum three fitties to fill the, I'm guessing, rather large shoes of David Tennant. One is Arthur:

The squeaky clean, blond do-gooder counterpart to the darker Merlin, but with a rebellious, sexy side as embodied by this snapshot of him in prison. Seriously, this looks like the beginning to every german porn ever made. His looks fit with Merlin's like a key in a lock:

Here he is looking both innocent and seriously broken by the sexy poison induced fever during which he literally screamed "Arthur, faster, faster." Is the BBC taking the legendary relationship and running with it? Because that would seriously make my year. But what will happen next week when a strange combination of both Merlin and Arthur's beautiful bonces in the form of Lancelot comes to court and has a reediculously symbolic fight with Arthur?

Oh to be that fangirl in the background! The only real test as to whether the creators of this infernal show will do the decent thing is next week's episode. Properly, Merlin will become jealous of Lancelot's arrival, perhaps mediated through a woman a la Eve Sedgwick's theory of 'triangular desire.'
But enough about theory! I want to know the answers to the eternal questions:. Does Lancelot like to lance-a-lot? And will Arthur ever find his Martha? I'm praying we find out.

Messymorphoses

Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed into other bodies.

Or rather, how fit faces are changed into somewhat less beautiful faces.

Very appropriately for the recent BBC adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, the frustratingly pious and yet frustratingly sexy Angel Clare was played by Eddie Redmayne, who is the possessor of quite the prismatic visage.





His awkward, ethereal beauty which can come across as elegant or ugly was perfect for the role of the idealistic but ultimately hypocritical Angel. It was a lovely example of casting where the Fit can quite literally become the Crit.