It has occurred to me..

[lyssie]

...after watching and listening to Battlefield for the bazillionth time that, that... Eleven should be Merlin. No, seriously. He is like Seven's younger, slightly scarier brother. Also, he's currently going through a thing where he doesn't want to shout his name from the rooftops anymore. And 'Merlin' is as good a name as any.

The only difficulty would be finding an actress who could pull off a young Jean Marsh (then again, if we could just de-age Marsh, we'd be set)

(Then, of course, River can show up to rescue him from the cave wherein he gets trapped at the end)

Of course, my personal crack theory is that Ace shows up and is all "Haven't you dealt with this yet?" and disapproving at him, so they team up to go rescue Arthur and start the round table and stuff.

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking recently that someone reminded me of a young Jean Marsh, but I can't for the life of me remember who it was. Seriously, I remember it was about three weeks ago, but I have no idea what I was watching.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Like a time lock can keep Ace anywhere.

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

YES! Eleven is the Merlin they were talking about, yes! This makes so much sense! I love your theories.

Ooh, a young Jean Marsh. That's hard. Juno Temple, maybe?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I was just--I was listening, and going "you know, they never dealt with this. And it's supposed to be a future version." and then I tried to fit Eight or Nine or Ten in, and it just didn't really work (not as an insult, or anything, they just don't *fit* Merlin, if that makes sense). And then I thought "Oh, Eleven's all about puzzles and he's sort of Seven with less..." and it was a perfect idea.

Hrm. Juno Temple might work, yes. (I think she's got the gravitas to pull it off, if not quite the sharp, angular features)

Also, I briefly considered Amy being Morgaine, as in, Eleven manipulates her badly, and she snaps and becomes Morgaine (and while it is hilarious, it is a bad idea).

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

Amy being Morgaine would be a timey-wimey mind-blowing packet of bad but awesome. What would be super awesome is if she was Morgaine we saw with Seven - they would kind of think they knew the other but not? Maybe Amy that got old ends up there, I don't know.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

omg I think you just broke my brain. *goes to bed*