Heading out to case the promise land

1. Dude, Merlin was full of unexpectedness. I spent a good half hour or so afterwards just texting all, "What just happened! Did that really just happen! What!" Because seriously, what is with the way things are happening this season? It is approaching S1 levels of good again. though I was sad they (probably temporarily) killed Lancelot in the second ep right as I was starting to have shippy thoughts about him and Merlin. They are very cute together. Though of course they then had Arthur all quietly overjoyed to see Merlin not dying, so I promptly returned to Merlin/Arthur.

If I have one criticism, it's that I wish they'd let Gwen have meaningful relationships with people who aren't Arthur again, and motivations that aren't directly tied to him. Remember when she used to be friends with Merlin? Right now, she seems not so much like a person as Arthur's love interest. But that is pretty easily fixable, and I am content with all the other awesomeness on display at the moment.

2. I saw the first 2 eps of Community last night. Why was I not informed of its goodness before now? Admittedly, I was, but it should've been done more forcefully. I already love pretty much everything about it. And there is no laugh track, so it's already ahead of pretty much every other sitcom I've ever seen. <3

3. Josh Ritter has a live album up for download at his twitter here. I haven't listened to much of it yet, but my feeling is that you can never have too much Josh in your life.