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lesbicosmos · 1 month

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rip slightly longer haired s4 arthur u had so much potential 🙏

(photos from dale mccready (cinematographer)'s merlin archive on her website!!)

#the way this wouldve made SO MUCH sense narratively too #representative of his mental state after the s3 finale #clearly they just knew merlin wouldve folded immediately if he saw this arthur and they didnt want it to be too gay #(it already was)#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin #merlin s4

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merlinemrys · 8 months

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“i don’t want to see you dead, guinevere. but i don’t want to see you.” SEVEN SHOT DEAD. FIVE KILLED. TWO BRUTALLY INJURED. WOMAN FOUND WAILING IN THE STREET. BABIES CRYING.

#bradley and angel ATEEEEE that scene but GOD IT MAKES MY NERVES SO BAD I FEEL SICK #shows #bbc merlin #merlin s4 #4x09 #arwen #arthur #gwen #text #tais toi lys #*

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steve-needs-a-hug · 1 year

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me, after starting Merlin s4: ok, I need to stop viewing the show through a shipper's lens and just appreciate the show for what it is

s4 e4: *Merlin wrestles a trouser-less Arthur to the ground, climbs over Arthur in bed, Kilgarrah says the birth of the white dragon bodes well for Merlin and Arthur's future*

#i don't have to read between many lines here #it's all just right there #what a wild ride lmao #bbc merlin #merlin s4 #merthur #merlin x arthur #aithusa

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sparklygraves · 10 months

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there was one ep beginning of s4 where Merlin & Arthur were separated & it made me see the the show IS their chemistry. they were trying to make it work leaning on Gwaine for comedy on Arthur’s side & Lancelot for the feels on Merlin’s but then when Merlin & Arthur got back together towards the end of the ep I was like OH WOW THIS. THEY ARE MARRIED & ABOUT TO MAKE OUT. WHAT.

they are magic :)

#bbc merlin #merthur #merlin s4 #merlin season 4

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xviruserrorx · 6 months

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I always found it funny in the Arthur waking up in his stew scene is that we know from past episodes that Merlin usually comes back to get Arthur ready for bed and that he probably did come back and just left him like that till morning

#you cant tell me merlin wasnt up all night thinking of his little joke and silently laughing about it to himself #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #virus rambling #text post #merlin 4x10 #merlin s4 #<- so right past me

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none-ofthisnonsense · 2 months

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Merlin S4E7, “The Secret Sharer”

Morgana’s hovel, she’s being taken care of by Agravaine. Get away from her you twat!

Morgana is paranoid, huh…

The domesticity between Merlin and Arthur is so cute!

Purple shirt reappearance!

Where is that?

A market town! Reminds me of Akhaten (DW) a bit.

You can’t just catch Gaius like that.

Oh come on Agravaine, we all know you’d plant some regardless of its true belonging there.

Is Merlin getting questioned too?

We still don’t know who they’re looking to abduct.

GAIUS??!

Agravaine is a good manipulator but a too obvious one.

I think you’ve already lost that other friend. The only person Merlin is more loyal to than Arthur is Gaius. Actually, I don’t fully agree with all that I’ve just said.

Gwaine!

NO

Gaius’ absolute faith in Merlin.

Gwaine you better not believe Agravaine. You better prioritise Merlin over Agravaine.

(How did Merlin get so far without a torch?)

Third or fourth Merlin/Morgana duel? They are the best pair ever. Their interactions are MWAH. From S1 to S4 where it’s completely flipped. There is SO MUCH TO DISSECT. They are foils to each other in every way.

Alator you better not tell Morgana.

I did not expect him to pledge allegiance to Merlin.

#Merlin #bbc merlin #merlin s4 #Merlin s4e7 #the secret sharer #Merlin liveblog

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hmsharmony · 1 year

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5. 10. 19.

Apologies in advance for this having nothing to do with Spider-Man until 19. 😬

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

Merlin/Arthur how I loathe thee. The racism and misogyny I had to witness (e.g., petition to replace Angel with Colin when she was scheduled to do an interview with Bradley). I began the show shipping everyone in the core four (although Arthur/Gwen was my OTP), but the treatment of Gwen by many Merthur shippers soured me on the ship. The final nail in the coffin was when a friend, an Arthur/Merlin shipper, found out I shipped Arthur/Gwen and expressed disgust. Fuck that.

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

The one that immediately comes to mind (which will not come as a shock to anyone who was around in 2011/2012) is Merlin’s “Gwen is enchanted to kiss zombie!Lancelot the night of her wedding, Arthur finds them, and he banishes her from Camelot on pain of death because ‘I don’t want to see you dead but I don’t want to see you.’”

A few things that fill me with rage to this day:

zero agency for Gwen (who never finds out she was enchanted the actual fuck!!!);

Arthur using his power as king to deal with a personal issue;*

Gwen going through literal hell on her own (taken captive and visuals/language making clear her captor plans to sexually assault her; escaping when she discovers her captor is working with Morgana and they plan to harm Camelot so even though she can’t return ON PAIN OF DEATH she makes her way back anyway; almost freezing to death during said journey; getting chased down by Morgana, who knocks her out and turns her into a DEER while Arthur is going on a hunting party with a prospective bride; said woman SHOOTING DEER GWEN WITH AN ARROW)

Gwen saying she has what she deserves when she tells Merlin she can’t return to Camelot because she betrayed Arthur;

Arthur finding her ring in the middle of the forest and not wondering WHY it was there or if she’s okay; and

an underwhelming resolution where everything is swept under the rug and they IMMEDIATELY GET MARRIED DESPITE THERE CLEARLY BEING MAJOR TRUST ISSUES AND GWEN MOST DEFINITELY HAVING PTSD WHAT ARE YOU DOING

(Bonus Gwen saying she can’t forgive herself and Arthur saying he doesn’t care I am still livid and it has been more than a decade let Gwen have negative feelings!!!)

Took me literal years to love that ship again because of this storyline.

*It would have been much more interesting if it had been framed as “it’s either saving the woman you love or upholding the law” like they did in Camelot. The show (claimed) to be in large part about how Arthur would create a new, fair Camelot (lmao). They missed a perfect chance to have him wrestle with what that means and the sort of king he wanted to be. I kind of played with that in the spec fic I wrote for 4x09, but to this day I want so much more.

19. What is one thing you hate most about your fandom?

I want to preface this by saying that, because of previous fandom experiences (including the infamous Harry Potter ship wars during my formative years), I was careful to cultivate my Spider-Man fandom experience from the get-go. My first couple years I literally only talked to existing friends who also loved PeterMJ (save for one fanvid I made in late 2019, but really I was just thanking people for commenting). It’s only in the past ~year I started interacting with new people, and even then I’m still very careful about expanding my bubble. So I’ve insulated myself pretty well, and I mostly have only secondhand knowledge of the horrendous side of this fandom (versus my merlin days where I would explore outside my bubble and see so much fucked up shit, usually of the racism variety).

With that out of the way: this is so minor in the scheme of things, but whenever someone calls MCU PeterMJ a slow burn I want to rip my face off. I love these kids but what they had was the exact opposite of a slow burn. And it’s not because it was done in one movie—When Harry Met Sally is 100% a slow burn in my book, and yes, the focus is that relationship, but there WERE things homecoming or far from home could have done. Not putting in the work to establish an existing relationship and instead going straight to Peter liking her is not a slow burn. (Now the way they hinted at MJ’s feelings in Homecoming? That was slow burn potential. Would’ve killed for something similar for Peter. And I say this as someone who had the biggest goddamn smile on her face everything they interacted when I first saw Far From Home.)

Salty Ask Game

#Merlin s4 #in all its shame #shipping: arthur and gwen #clearly never over s4 because look at the caps lock #Harry potter mention for the blacklist #spiderman (mcu)#shipping: peter and mj #it’s been so long since I did a good nice rant #I feel freed

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new-seas · 1 year

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WHERES that post about the theory that Agravaine was formorrah’d by our lady of spite Morgana. Cuz I’m watching season 4 and can’t stop thinking about it

#merlinblogging #agravaine #morgana pendragon #bbc merlin #merlin s4

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morganarchy · 7 months

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Guys I know it's The Year of Our Lord 2023 and I am still thinking about BBC Merlin that ended in *checks watch* jesus christ 2012 but I was rewatching the series with my partner and we were really enjoying it and I felt very validated that this show I had watched as a teen WAS good actually, but then...

Like why is Season 4 like that? Like why are the last two seasons so garbage? I'm sorry?? Why did we do Morgana like that? Katie McGrath CAN ACT I've SEEN IT why is she DOING IT LIKE THAT??

We still haven't been able to finish season 5 because it is a bit of a slog and they really just flattened several characters, most notably Gwen and Morgana, but others as well. Why is Gwen, who was absolutely a main character in the first three seasons who had a lot of agency suddenly like, a background character who occasionally intervenes but is otherwise there for Arthur's character development?

ALSO WHY is Morgana NOT a good villain?? There are NO STAKES when she's the antagonist of an episode or even a slew of episodes. I think the longest time she's been able to "win" is like...two episodes? Maybe? Morgana should have been like Cersei in terms of threat levels, but she's just not and that's so a) uncharacteristic in terms of her S1-3 characterization and b) NOT GOOD STORY TELLING because your BIGGEST VILLAIN isn't even the most threatening thing they've been up against. Ghost Uther was more dangerous than Living Morgana!

She's a goth paper bag in seasons 4 and 5 and they do a horrible job trying to make us sympathize with her but also fear her (something done much better for villains in GOT or other shows - GOT is just on my mind because of the shared aesthetic - and NOT COUNTING the last few seasons).

Also Merlin?? Hello?? Why has he become the cop? S4-5 Merlin is essentially that cop in all cop shows who has a "gut instinct" that THAT GUY is the bad guy and he'll go against the law to beat his ass up and get him to confess and when Gaius or Arthur or anyone else calls him out he's like "Yeah but I had a /bad feeling/ about them" like BITCH WHY??

I love Mordred's arc, but it's predicated on Merlin being the literal worst and obviously our main characters need to have flaws but Merlin hates Mordred in a very un-Merlin-like way. He used to reject his visions or at least try to change them, but as soon as he sees Mordred killing Arthur or whatever he immediately hates Mordred no matter what Mordred does to show Merlin that he is changed. Old Merlin would have accepted that! Maybe that was a deliberate writing choice in the "I've learned I can't change fate" kind of way, but it plays very poorly on screen.

Anyway this was supposed to be a one paragraph rant about how BBC Merlin did my girl Morgana dirty in later seasons and I just kept remembering things to say so thank you for listening to my TED talk feel free to interact I'd love to talk about it.

#merlin #bbc merlin #morgana #gwen #arthur #merlin s4 #merlin s5 #rant #my post

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purplepingupenguins · 1 year

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