Rip Shakespeare, you would’ve loved the tragedy of bbc merlin
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Rip Shakespeare, you would’ve loved the tragedy of bbc merlin
I made you god cause it was all that I knew how to do
Arthur's first instinct: making sure Merlin is safe. Nothing else matters.
Arthur & Merlin | 2.13 "The Last Dragonlord"
i rlly thought people were exaggerating source merthur but upon starting to watch Merlin, no they’re really just like that
Frankenstein (2025) dir. Guillermo del Toro + paintings
no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood
what you might not realize is you have to go out of your way. you cant change while being stationary
Ivan the Terrible and His Son (1883) // Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011 - 2014)
It doesn’t matter if you’re gay, weird or stupid. You matter.
what happens if im all 3?
All three??
Really?
For a fandom that insists that magic on Merlin was a metaphor for being gay (i agree with this), you all sure like to complain how Merlin owed his secret to Morgana.
Merlin was a servant. He is a lowbrow woman's bastard son from another rival kingdom.
Morgana is a beautiful young noblewoman, the magic hating King's own ward, his secret love child.
Do you all seriously not see the disastrous (for Merlin) optics of all this? The Lady Said vs the servant said of it all?
I fully believe that if Merlin had told Morgana the truth, she would've f*cked him over without hesitation once Morgause entered the picture.
Morgana was raised by Uther just like Arthur, with the same entitlement as Arthur, but none of the responsibility, because she's not the heir or even known as Uther's daughter.
Morgana would see Merlin as a person with magic, and she'd be disappointed and disgusted that he doesn't just assassinate Uther despite being in his proximity for so long.
Morgana would see Merlin as useless to her cause.
She would tell him every single time she laid eyes on him, what an absolute disgrace she thinks he is.
She'd never understand Merlin's hesitation to act, or his love for Arthur, or the basic fact that he's a servant with no clout.
That is, until she needs him out of the way.
Then, suddenly, she would heed Merlin's words that he's a peasant with no social standing. And she'd set out to ruin what little respect Merlin does have in the eyes of the world. Because the best way to get to Arthur? Is through hurting Merlin.
Merlin is Arthur's only protection against magic in a world rife with magic even (especially) after the purge.
If there's one thing the show both told and SHOWED us, it is that Merlin is Arthur's closest confidant, his only true friend, and the person Arthur trusts and values most in the world, even if he is too emotionally constipated from machismo to say so 99 times out of 100.
There's so many things Morgana can say to Arthur and Uther to completely ruin Arthur's regard for the boy, and to make Uther order Merlin be drawn and quartered.
Do you all really need me to spell out all those diabolical things Morgana can accuse Merlin of?
And before anyone says Morgana would never, I will remind you that this is the same woman who had a bunch of peasant shot at with crosbows on her very first day as queen, all because the KNIGHTS, and not said peasants, refused to bow to her authority.
She is Uther's daughter, HIS FIRSTBORN, through and through.
Morgana would have set Merlin's metaphorical closet of magic on fire.
Not telling Morgana shit was the smartest, most self preserving thing Merlin (and Gaius) ever did.
Yes, Morgana was also in a bad situation with having magic in a kingdom that hates magic, but it is NOT the responsibility of the freakin PEASANT bastard boy to bear the burn of that.
We saw how quick Uther was to throw Gaius out with the Edwin episode, and then saw with the Witchfinder how he would never hesitate to order Gaius to be tortured and executed (which Gaius let happen without trying to defend himself only to protect BOTH Merlin and Morgana, but most fans really have no memory of that, apparently), and yet you people hate him for advising Merlin, like a sane person, not to tell the King's famously bold outspoken disobedient ward shit about his treasonous, life threatening secret.
Make it make sense.
"I asked ChatGPT-" Well I asked the immortal Dragon that Uther chained in the caves beneath Camelot and HE told me to commit treason
The best thing about Jud's ministry is how un-evangelical it is.
And I don't mean it's not like the Evangelical church, I mean he's not interested in convincing anyone to be a believer or a church goer. When the woman at the construction company starts talking to him about her mother, he doesn't tell her that God is there for her. He tells her that he's there's for. She already knows she can go to church, maybe she is even a Christian and feels like she has her God's love. But Jud knows that what she needs is another human being, because she's talking to him.
And that's such a better way to welcome people to your church than telling them to go. He's letting her know that there's fulfillment and safety and love there beyond just the religious side, because he's there.
Jud isn't interested in convincing anyone. He meets Benoit where he's at as an atheist, talking about the stories as just stories that we can take meaning from, and that works. It inspires Benoit to a moment of real, selfless kindness. He makes sure Benoit knows the doors are open any time he wants to enter, even if he enters as an atheist every time. Because the important thing is how you affect people and their actions, not how you affect their beliefs.
The scene with the construction worker ended up feeling so impactful it caught me off guard and I think this is a huge reason why.
It started as a comedic bit that quickly crashed into a serious tone. An extreme high followed by extreme low right really making you feel the weight.
But I also had been bracing for the moment of "God is here for you" preaching. Something that would have drawn me into a defensive mood.
And it didn't come. Instead it was "I am here with you". Not just a shepherd towards God, but as a human that also knew pain. And was here to listen.
It’s ok bc he’s cute :P
So this was about them.
And them.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Dicksee but with merthur