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Episode 10: Review 1×04 The Poisoned Chalice

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In today’s episode, MissSnowfox and Momo talk about the fourth episode of BBC’s Merlin, “The Poisoned Chalice”.

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Statistics:
  • First aired 11 Oct 2008
  • 3 female characters (with lines)
    • 2 main cast (Gwen, Morgana)
    • 1 supporting cast (Nimueh)
    • 5 male characters (with lines)
      • 4 main cast (Arthur, Merlin, Gaius, Uther)
      • 1 supporting cast (Bayard)
      • Enemy/Monster of the Week: Nimueh, Cockatrice, Baloran Spiders
      • Arthur kills 1 creature (Afanc)
        • Creaturology

        Cockatrice

        • French: cocatris
        • Medieval Latin: calcatrix
        • Ancient Greek: ichneumon
        • Means: Tracker
        • Two-legged dragon or serpent with rooster’s head
        • hatched from an egg laid by a rooster, and incubated by a toad (or according to some tales, a snake)
        • Sometimes synonymous with basilisk, but basilisks are traditionally depicted without wings so they’re not quite the same.
        • Can kill people by looking or breathing on them, or by touch alone
        • Dies upon hearing a rooster’s crow, or from looking at itself
        • BBC Merlin’s cockatrice looks like an oversized Komodo Dragon with wings, so not at all like a cockatrice from legends.

          • Cockatrice

          • Enormous spiders that live in the caves in the forest of Balor.
          • Don’t like light.
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