Uther and Morgana! Slowly but surely that pairing is growing on me, and you've captured it so well here. They're so complicated and powerful and so much goes unsaid so often, until it doesn't anymore. I really loved this.

(I'd actually never even realized that there haven't been any winter episodes of Merlin, but you're right! Now I want a Christmas ep. And the Green Knight can be in it, too, as long as there is still boykissing.)