Camelot 3000/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• Camelot 3000. No explanation is ever given for why Merlin can't turn Perceval and Tristan back into the forms they had back in the time of the first Camelot. Then it hit me: Merlin's powers are based completely on Satan. He's hit with the Grail in the last issue and it sets off an explosion of some kind. Perceval is one step further than that: he's explicitly a relative of Christ. So Merlin's powers won't work on him, or might even kill him and Merlin both. As for Tristan: he's undergoing karmic retribution from God because he raped a woman in his previous life. Merlin can't go against that because it would be against God's, or fate's, specific will. Merlin's powers are uniformly only useful against those who are evil themselves or "neutral". -- Saintheart At Home.
• I also asked myself how it was that Arthur got off so lightly when it's (very disturbingly) pointed out he tried to drown Mordred (and succeeded with a number of other babies!) when he was an infant. The punishment for Tristan is apparent: he's made a lesbian. Kay is also dead, a betrayer trying to save Arthur, by the time the revelation comes round. Then it hit me: Arthur has never forgiven himself for what he did. Whilst Kay and Tristan apparently don't remember what they did -- Tristan asks himself what he did in his previous life -- Arthur does. The next page over, he explains to Tom that the crown has always exacted a heavy price "on those I call my sons", and he embraces Tom as his son. Arthur is undergoing punishment: he is The Chosen One and he can't lay the crown aside; he must always remember and regret his crimes, whilst the others at least are spared that. In addition, Mordred himself is Arthur's punishment. -- Saintheart At Home