So, this is my little review for Merlin 3x13. Now, I don't usually write reviews for an episode, but this one was so epic I could not resist! I thought the previews were good, but how the whole episode turned out? Better than I ever could've imagined.

If you haven't figured it out by now, this fic contains spoilers. So if you haven't seen episode 13 yet, go away. GO! I'd hate to spoil it for you. But once you've watched it please come back and read! And review (:

Speaking of reviews: I. Want. Everybody. Who. Is. Reading. This. To. Review. Not to tell me how awesome or terrible this story is, but to share your own opinions. I would really like to hear them, so please, please review!

Alright, so here we go!

Start episode

Ooooh look! Clips from the last episode. Very nice, very nice! And now what do we have here? Sir Leon! Hello, my friend, how are you doing? What's that? Camelot has fallen? What you've served all your life is gone? Oh, then I guess things are going very well then. Now go bow to Queen Smirk-a-lot.

Well, looky who's in her pretty purple dress! I've always liked that dress.

Dear Queen Morgana,

In this episode you are looking for loyalty. I will grant you it only if you give me all your dresses.

~Redlily188

So Queen Morgana asks if Sir Leon and his knights are ready to serve her. Nah, he'd rather die. Well, Miss-need-to-wear-less-eyeliner makes a smart comment on how that can be arranged. She should really think of something more clever to say. I mean honestly, how long has that saying been around? A while.

Sir Leon get's all defensive and says he only serves King Uther and Prince Arthur. I'm liking this guy pretty well. He tells Morga- I'm sorry, I mean Queen Morgana that there is nothing she can do to change that. Well Queen Morgana does a little eyebrow raise and says, "We shall see." The guards take Mr. Faithful away. Next scene.

Awesome music plays and Merlin is running from an IMMORTAL knight. Yay! He makes it backs to the cave. But poor Merlin finds out there is no more water left. So now Gaius and Merlin chat about how they need to figure something out about Morgana. Well yes, Merlin, I think that'd be a good idea.

So we have scene of Morgana being a bad Queen and allowing her knights shoot at the people of Camelot! Sir Leon screams an awesome 'NOOOOOOO'. Pretty legit.

Epic Merlin theme song comes on….

And next scene.

A daddy, daughter scene! But they get along just as well as me and my daddy do. (But I don't lock my dad up in a dungeon and take over his kingdom." The scene ends a little like this:

"Do you really hate me so much?'-Uther

And here Morgana looks back, AND SHE DOESN'T SMIRK! So here I am, desperately hoping for redemption. The last two seasons Morgana was my favorite character, because she was such a strong willed girl. But now she's just plain evil, so I'm still clinging for hopes of redemption.

Camera pauses on face. I suck in my breath, hoping, hoping-

"You cannot begin to know how much I hate you." Hopes shattered. Uther looks pretty sad about it too.

Poor dejected Prince is sitting in the corner moping. Well, Merlin, being Merlin, goes over to comfort him. First he offers Arthur rat (INSIDE JOKE! I'm very proud of the writers) and then begins to talk all wisely. Go Merlin! Then ARTHUR EATS THE RAT. No complaints or forcing Merlin to eat it. Love it.

NEXT SCENE.

Awww Morgana's pouting about being Queen and about how hard it is. Gwen comforts her, and suggests she talks to Sir Leon. At first I didn't know who Gwen was talking about, because it sounded like she was saying "Cillion." Took me a while to figure out what she was saying. But, I finally did! Yet another scene change.

Gaius and Merlin talk about how to defeat the army. Pretty interesting convo, if you ask me. But you didn't, so I'm not going into detail over the high or low points of the conversation. Next scene.

Gwenny's gonna talk to 'Cillion'! In this scene humble Gwen really shows her Queenlyness. She's all bossy, and I'm very proud of her for that. A + Gwen!

All seems well until we see it from a different view point. Then you're all: "Oh crap." Then we see it is Morgana and Morgause (shocker there) who are spying. Morgana's all, 'oooh what dirty rotten back-stabbing friend (Yeah, you were willing to let her get burnt at the stake! Don't be such a hypocrite! What's up with you always trying to kill everybody you once loved?) you're gonna die tomorrow!' See what I mean? She likes to kill. It's her favorite thing. But Too-much-eye-liner is all 'How bout we make her lead us to your brother instead? Because it's your sisterly duty so kill him." So Morgana's all, "Sure, whatev."

Next scene (I seem to saying that a lot) Merlin's going through his bag, and he pulls out…

….drumroll….

The little glass of water that old King guy gave him! So Grandpa questions him about it, and Merlin pretty much says he don't know, but he'll figure it out.

So then we have Gwen and Morgana again, and Morgana slips some white powder in her drink. Dun dun dun? What will happen?

Next Scene (ok, I'm gonna start saying NS instead of Next Scene. Yeah, that's how lazy I am. But can you blame me? We're only 10 minutes into the show, and I've already written almost 1,000 words. Give me a break!) Merlin's working his magic, trying to figure what his glass of water will do. During this scene I was so hoping Arthur'd show up and be all, "Merlin, what are you doing?" And Merlin would be like, "Well, trying to save Camelot's butt with my magic. But you can't have me executed because you're no longer prince, so HA!" But alas, that did not happen.

NS: Gwen goes into a room and makes a molding out of the key to unlock the dungeons. Well, she should've looked behind the curtain first, because Morgause was watching the whole time.

I do think there is one advantage to Morgana being Queen. When she's monarch, you don't get out of the dungeons unless she wants you to. When Uther was King, people get out all the time. So you one that one, Queen Smirk-a-lot.

Back to Merlin. Yeah, nothing's happening.

NS: Gwen forges a key.

NS: Someone (can't tell who. Can somebody please inform me who it was?) kicks Merlin and he drops the bottle. Great, just great.

BUT WAIT! It really is great! Because who do we seen in the water? The one, the only, FREYA! Ooooh romance! Freya can help! Yay Freya!

Stupid Gwaine interrupts, and Freya disappears. Oh well.

NS: RUN MERLIN RUN! Oh look, it's THE GREAT DRAGON! I like this guy; he's always funny. And in this scene he admits he's loyal to Merlin! So sweet (:

So now we have a scene that reminds me of Harry Potter. By the way, I saw part 1 today. I'm pumped for part 2.

Back on topic: The Great Dragon warns Merlin about the sword, and Merlin promises he'll take care of it. So Merlin rides out on a little boat that must be different from the one from last season. Because as I recall, he set that boat on fire. How another boat got there, I do not know. So he rides out on it and the sword pops up! You can see Freya's arm, which I think is a little strange. Wouldn't it be ash, since it was burned? Oh, well.

NS: Gwen gives Sir Leon the key. Then we skip to nightfall, and ding, ding ding. We have warning bells. Sir Leon shows up at Gwen's cozy home, and she makes him wear a dress. Oh you Merlin writers, you never fail to humor us, do you?

NS: Morgana and Morgause stalk Gwen and Sir Leon. To my surprise, Morgana does not smirk. End scene.

NS: Sir Leon get's out of his dress. He is seen without a shirt. I wonder how many Sir Leon fans screamed at this, and how many Arthur fans demanded to see a non-shirted Bradley(Arthur) We haven't gotten one of those scenes in the past few episodes.

NS: Morgause is being a stalker. End Scene.

Arthur makes fun of Merlin. They joke, and have a sweet friendship scene. LOVE IT. 3

So they hear a noise, and Arthur sees GWEN! Awww, so sweet. But wait! There's more! EVIL IMMORTAL KNIGHTS! Ahhh!

So there's this whole whirlwind of panic, and Gaius and Merlin have a scene that really scared me. I felt as if this scene was foreshadowing the death of Gaius in this episode, and I did NOT want that. More panic, more running.

Merlin fights immortal knight with Excalibur, and defeats him. Nice.

In Arthur's neck of the woods the evil knights are upon them but BOOM! Boulders fall blocking the way. We see Lancelot and other cool looking guy bounce down. Everybody runs away from scary knights. Big guys name is Perciville. (Sp?) Arthur and Lancelot share an awkward moment. Well, they both like the same girl, so I suppose that makes things a little awkward.

Morgana and Morgause talk about how in the end they will beat Arthur, but I'm going HA, FAT CHANCE! Pretty boring scene, if you ask me. But you didn't, so oh well.

I really hate that scene though. Morgana really goes all out in her evilness. Maybe the idea of her being Queen wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that she was a worse tyrant than Uther! Season 1 and 2 Morgana=Excellent Queen. Season 3 Morgana=Time to run for the borders.

Well, I'm going to take a break. But have no fear readers! The next chapter shall be up in an hour or so. So thanks for reading, and please review with your opinions!