After 1800 years, you’d think he’d have it all figured out.
He certainly thinks he does.
MERLYN’S MISTAKE
The limited series
Episode Four
In Which It Really Is Love
Begins with the plane crash into Lake Glaslyn, Sofia playing it cool in front of the passengers, losing it when they’re off boarded. Alone with Merlyn she confesses her sins and reveals the source of her knowledge of the lake.
This episode revolves around the difference between glamor and beauty, glory and honor, desire and love, trust and belief.
Sofia confesses her crime. Merlyn loves her anyway.
The introduction of Nimue and her brand of proper Faerie magic gives Frankie new insight into his code-switching habits. She drops her glamour. Her boyfriend still loves her.
Flashbacks give history of Merlyn’s long, lovely relationship with Nimue. Also, teasing, sensual flashes of the sword ceremony. . . tip penetrating the water’s surface from below, long blade rising out of the water. . . just flashes. . . Nimue emerging, glistening. Also flashes of the great conflagration, the war of the trees.
It ENDS with the arrival of a helicopter full of Agency soldiers crunching into the middle of the campground built by Nimue and her new mortal boyfriend, Danny. The soldiers emerge with weapons and quite clearly our team is outgunned.
At the intersection of Roger Zelazny and Jim Butcher stands a small monument to individual agency, This magical, funny book that calls not for accountability but responsibility. As painful truths come to light, Merlyn’s conscience compels him to redress old wrongs only to realize that he has endangered all the people he loves. Still, despite machine gun fire, plane crashes and giant spiders, they will stand by him.. When he needs them, even his old Faerie ally Nimmue will be there to do her part. Still, if he can’t unravel the last riddles woven into the Arthurian Excalibur construct they may be too late to save themselves or the world.
“Brody’s writing is brilliant.”
Robin Williams
In the words of the wise, ancient magician himself, “If I see a way that I might save the world and I don’t at least try, then I’m sort of dick.”
