Frik Yeah, Merlin! @ambrosias-cottage - Tumblr Blog

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Despite his character’s exaggerated arrogance and even foolish portrayal, Jason Done best fits my visualization of the classic antagonist. There were no GIFs on the internet to be found of this version of Mordred, so here are just a few I made up with my Arthurian fan casting in mind.

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Some doodles of Jack from Merlin’s Apprentice — great character, great movie...and in need of some more spotlight.

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30 days hbc challenge // day 1: first helena movie you saw; merlin

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Lena Headey and Guinevere in Merlin (1998)

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Mordred providing looks

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Dear old Master Frik, from the two-part tv-movie from 1998, Merlin. Played by Martin Short, and absolutely my favourite character in the movie. Oh, Sam Neill played an excellent Merlin, and really for its time, the movie was all-over very well done.

It’s the story of Merlin as told by Merlin himself, which is quite clever, and Frik, who has been part of his audience for the tale, comments that while Merlin tells an excellent tale, it wasn’t quite how Frik himself remembered things going - but Merlin says that’s how the audience likes the tale, and they wouldn’t believe the truth. Which leaves room, of course, for anybody who has Opinions on the Merlin canon.

Still, Frik is a self-described crabby old gnome, and in answering the call for a perfect Gentleman’s Gentlmen he was and always will be one of the best. He’s well-spoken, clever as well as educated, and in possession of a very subtle kind of snark.