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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. And Amanda,

as promised, we are back with Merlin 2 colon origins. I am so excited, Julia. I love an origins

sequel. I loved our Merlin episode. And I can't wait to learn more about this figure. I'm really

excited as well.

I think that it was very fun to tell a lot of the stories around Merlin, his origins in terms of the mythology.

But I really wanted to dig into how he was created as a character.

And as I mentioned in the previous episode, there are a lot of instances and

figures that seem to have coalesced into what we know today to be Merlin. So in this episode,

we are going to cover the three-ish figures that inspired the modern day Merlin and then talk about how different authors have

interpreted the Merlin that we know and love and how that creates the Merlin of, I don't

know, BBC's 2008 Merlin series, for example. Or the YA series I recently got back from my dad's storage unit,

Pendragon by DJ McHale, which is 100% just a retelling of Arthurian lore in a kind of

like sci-fi, timey-wimey way.

I might genuinely reread this.

I remember them being very sad and dramatic towards the end of the series.

They were quite sad and dramatic.

If loss of a parent is a thing that you don't particularly want to dwell on right now, definitely avoid this series.

But as a kid, I felt very deep for reading them, if that makes sense.

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