Arthur And Merlin In 'A Servant Of Two Masters'

This show is about the Arthurian legend, but it has some changes to it. Instead of Arthur being a young boy and Merlin being his old mentor, both Arthur and Merlin are in their late teens to early twenties and they live in a Camelot where magic is banned. Arthur is price and Merlin is his servant. Merlin has to hide his magic from Prince Arthur who was raised by his father, Uther, to believe that magic is evil. He uses his magic to save Arthur from dangerous creatures and enemies who try to harm him. There are other characters from the original Arthurian legend as well. Guinevere is a servant to Morgana, who is Arthur’s half sister.

In this specific episode, “A Servant of Two Masters”, Morgana, who is now evil and is trying to seize Camelot

for herself, has captured Merlin and has used her magic to control his mind. She makes him think that he wants to kill Prince Arthur. Merlin returns to Camelot and commits several failed assassination attempts. Eventually, Merlin overpowers Morgana’s magic and returns to where she lives in the woods to confront her. They both battle with their magic until Merlin wins.
In this episode, you can see several values highlighted. A main value in this episode, and in the whole series, is friendship. Merlin and Arthur have a very close friendship, which is why it is so hard for Merlin to keep his magic a secret. In this episode, when Merlin is captured by Morgana, Arthur becomes very worried and goes out himself to look for Merlin instead of sending knights. This shows how much he values Merlin’s friendship and would most likely do anything to find him. When he is told that Merlin was not found in the woods, we see that he is visibly shaken. His friendship is so important to him that he does not know what he would do if he cannot find Merlin. Another value that is seen in this episode is selflessness. Merlin is selfless because he puts Arthur’s wellbeing above his own. He uses his magic to crate a rockslide so enemies cannot reach Arthur, but in doing so, he separates himself from Arthur and the enemies take him to Morgana. Even when he knows this will happen, he still decides to save Arthur before himself. He also returns to Morgana’s hovel in the woods to remove the hold she has over him. This is selfless because he knows that Morgana is dangerous, but if he does not return, Arthur would still be in danger from him. Merlin does something he knows is dangerous to make sure that Arthur is safe.
There are no social responsibility themes in this episode, or the series. It is a family show, so it avoids talking about anything too serious.
There is a bit of violence in this episode. Since the show takes place in Arthurian times, there is a lot of sword fighting that happens in the show. At the beginning of the episode, Arthur, Merlin, and his knights are attacked by men sent from Morgana. The two groups fight each other with swords and maces, some also being on horseback. This is a family show though, so they do not show any blood during the fights. They are limited to a very small amount of blood to keep their rating, so during fights there is so blood. You do see some blood on their armor afterwards, but it is a very small amount. It might make the battles less believable, but with young kids watching, they cannot have people spewing blood. There is also a fight between Morgana and Merlin at the end of the episode where, instead of using weapons, they both use their magic. It does not seem as violent because they are not running at each other with swords, but they are still trying to harm one another. Even if you do not see much blood or any blood at all, it is still violent behavior that you see throughout the show.
Also because it is a family show, there is no sexual content in this episode or the series. You see Arthur and Guinevere fall in love, but you never see them do anything more than kiss. Young kids would watch the show with their parents, so they series had to stay away from anything that would be considered too graphic.
There is quite a bit of family life portrayal in this episode.

Arthur and Morgana are half-siblings, which neither of them knew until they were fully-grown. Seeing Morgana turn evil and knowing that they were related was hard on Arthur when he found out. During the series, you see what happens to Morgana for her to want to kill her own family. In this episode, she sends bandits after Arthur, and controls the mind of Merlin to try and get him to kill Arthur. Knowing that they are related makes their relationship much more interesting because you expect families to love one another, and instead, these two are constantly at war with one another. You also see a type of family in the knights. Arthur, Merlin, and the knights form a brotherhood throughout the series that you can see in this episode. After Arthur, Merlin, and the knights are attacked at the beginning of the episode, Merlin gets taken and Arthur gets separated from the knights. Eventually, they find Arthur, and you can see that they are happy to find him because they were worried. They are all close friends, so when one goes missing, they all worry. When Arthur and another knight go looking for Merlin, the knight talks about how much he likes Merlin, showing that even though Merlin is not a knight of the round table, he is still accepted a friend to all of

them.
There are not many minorities in the show other than Guinevere, who is portrayed by a black woman. However, the topic of race or ethnicity is never brought up. There are a few women in leading roles, the main one being Morgana. In shows set in this time period, you would mostly find that women stay home to cook or clean while the men go out to find adventure. That is not the case for Morgana. She is shown as having great power and she does not hesitate to get what she wants. In this episode,