Merlin 5.12 "The Diamond Of The Day, Part One" Spoiler-Free Preview

The Great Dragon and some friends all compete to be as obscure as possible about the penultimate episode of Merlin

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It’s the penultimate episode of ever! And our young see🔴ker of spoilers is bubbling over with excitement and anticipation as he once again journeys to the cave of the Great Dragon for information. Will he never learn?

Seeker: “Great Dragon! Great Dragon! I come seeking✨… oh, you have comꦡpany.”

Great Dragon: “I do indeed. We needed to discuss ‘The Diamond Of The Day, Part One.ꦫ’ Pleaseꦇ let me introduce my esteemed colleagues. This is Yoda…”

Yoda: &💎ldquo;Greetings, youngling. The thirst for knowledge within you is strong.”

Great Dragon: “And this i🍰s the Architec🐻t of the Matrix…”

The Architect: “Deconstruction of the cathode artifice is essential for the dissemination of informati🤡on. To wit, welcome.”

Great Dragon: “And you’ve met Queen Mab…ౠ”

Queen Mab: “So good to see you again, my friend,
With Merlin nearing its ultimate end.”

Great Dragon: “Together we form the Le♏ague Of Sಌlightly Obscure Ramblers Society.”

Seeker: “So you’re losers?”

Great Dragon: “I beg your pardon?”

Seeker: “League Of… Oh, never mind.”

Yoda: “Seen the episode we have.”

The Architect: “Experiential expo♈sure to the digita𝓰l illusion has been initiated. Ergo, asseveration will commence.”

Queen Mab: “Morgana empowered with knowledge anew,
Sends soꦐme sucker to Merlin to make him🍌 feel blue.”

Yoda: “Foreboding music, the💫 episode opens with.”

The Great Dragon: 🐭“And Merlin loses something impo🤪rtant.”

The Architect: “Antecedenꦯtly he deceives Arthur by me😼ans of a recreational duplicity with mathematical precision.”

Queen Mab: “Faces from the past make an appearance
One’s a bi🐈t Yoda, but with less incoherence.”

Yoda: “Make fun o🐈f my speech🐎 patterns, do you?”

Great Dragon: “Now, now. No arguing.”

Seeker: “But does it feel like it&🌞rsquo;s leading up to something big?”

Great Dragon: “Indeed it does. Then it delivers somethin⭕g big.”

Yoda: “Jawdropping, the cliffhanger is.”

The Architect: “And with multiple aspects.”

Great Dragon: “If it’s action you’re after you won’t be left wanting. It goes into full Lord Of The Rings mode at times.”

Queen Mab: “And the knights get to do what knights do best,
With🤡 Gwaine getting a little more acti💛on than the rest”

Great Dragon: “Really Mab, please behave…!”

Yoda: “Strong and su🥂pportive Gwen is. Suspicious maybe too…”

Great Dragon: “Arthur is disappoint🎐ed with Merlin.”

The Architect: “Predictions and portents assimil𒈔ate into a path none🏅 can turn from. Ergo, the eventuality of a anomalous message amounts to a potential signifier for Arthur.”

Seeker: “Does he even speak in English?”

Great Dragon: “Sort of.”

Yoda: “A present, Morgana gives Mordred.”

Great Dragon: “There are a couple of lines that are crafty a nod to the fact that we’re nearing꧂ the end of the show.”

Queen Mab: “There’s a cave, you’ll not be surprised to know
’Cos caves have been common this series of the show
But this one is more important than most
﷽ It might even be housꩵing some sort of ghost.”

The Architect: “And that must conclude our promulgation of information, concomitant to circumstances appe൩rtaining to spoiler containment.”

Great Dragon: “He means, we’re done.”

Seeker: &ldq𝄹uo;My head hurts. See you aga🍎in, next week, losers!”

Great Dragon: “Oi!”

[ The Seeker wanders off muttering under his breath something about how these previews have jumped the shark… ]

Merlin "The Diamond Of The Day, Part One” airs on BBC One on Saturday 22 December at 7.55pm

Dave Golder
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