Mar 7
this has probably been noticed before but I just realised that the first line of the show is repeated at the end… evil.
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this has probably been noticed before but I just realised that the first line of the show is repeated at the end… evil.
Absolutely diabolical of the BBC Merlin writers to set up Isolde and Tristan as the thing that makes Arthur realise/ act on the fact that he’s in love with Gwen, and then in the very last episode they throw a curveball and extend the parallel to Merlin. When I watched it for the first time it was “aww they’re so sweet — it’s a shame they’d never parallel it with Merthur because they’re not canon </3” and then in the LAST EPISODE on his deathbed…
Feeling like Job right now.
I don’t want new children (reincarnations of aziracrow)
I want my OLD CHILDREN (the original aziracrow)
the parallels in this show haunt me
I wonder if Todd, after Neil died, found the minutes he took of the Poets’ meetings. I wonder if he read them over and over again just to hear Neil’s voice in his head.
The end of Merlin is very very tragic but there are bits of it I can appreciate.
Arthur was always going to die — if it’s based on Le Morte De Arthur — I suppose. There were a million ways they may have improved the closure of the ending (I once saw a post saying that if they’d put just a two second clip of Merlin recognising Arthur in the lake in the modern day we would’ve had a lot more closure and now I can’t stop thinking about it) but they did decently, in my opinion.
This is *the* Arthur Pendragon — *the* King Arthur. And, forgive me for I have not read Le Morte De Arthur and don’t know how it’s portrayed there, his death is overall really… intimate? You’d expect the death of such an important mythological figure to be a great and honourable death in battle, surrounded by his people or his knights or even his wife. But the writers decided they were going to make his death just about Merlin and him. They decided they were going to make the majority of the FINAL episode of their show just about Merlin and Arthur and them talking it out; with the heroic and noble Arthur unable to support himself without Merlin.
This might just be an outcome of my tears over the end of Good Omens season two, but I’m SO grateful that they had Arthur forgive Merlin before he died. Sure, they could’ve revealed his magic earlier and it would’ve felt smoother — and there was a lot they could’ve done to improve Arthur’s character development in general — but I’m just glad he did forgive him.
But we got “I use it for you, Arthur, only for you” and “just hold me — please” which break my heart but I really do appreciate the intimacy of the death overall.
what if when todd looks so distraught in the last scene of dead poets society it’s not only because of mr keating leaving and the horrible things that have happened, but also because when cameron reads out the “understanding poetry” chapter it’s the same one that neil read all of that time ago…
it’s a reminder of how the world has moved on from neil so quickly. his role has been replaced whilst todd still sits there drowning in his grief.
Is this Charlie? Look at him just chilling at the back of the pack haha