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the only reason writers kept Arthur in dark was because otherwise he'd have solved the plot, repealed the ban, United the albion and remained alive easily. One person, who, if knew things, would have been able to work on it and changed things for better... But let's not tell him, let him remain in dark.
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bbc merlin - 03x12 The Coming of Arthur, Part I/03x13 The Coming of Arthur, Part II
never gonna be normal about this
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bbc merlin - 03x13 The Coming of Arthur, Part II
princeling and his reactions to everyone choosing to join him in battle aka arthur and his love for the knights (and co) of his camelot
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a story in three parts:
bbc merlin - 03x12 The Coming of Arthur, Part I
that's arthur's "alone....meaning....don't tell merlin where we're going so it still counts as a secret" face btw
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I've been scrolling through Endeavour Filming photos AND THERE WAS THIS GOLD
Seems like a pretty ordinary photo shoot, huh?
YOU COULDN'T BE MORE WRONG
So we've got Shaun and Jack here, already tired, but still looking more or less sharp-
but then we have those two Grandpas
Casually sitting and being obviously
Bored.
I can't even decided which one is funnier- Roger Allam sitting on a locker or Anton Lesser
ACTUALLY YAWNING.
Freaking yawning.
As he was about to say
"A dead body? I've seen more dead buggers in a dAy than you in your EnTirE LiFe, doctor, but carry on, whatever"
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Casually fucking breaking from Merlin stuttering here
Because y’all, no matter how uncoordinated and really clumsy we see of him sometimes, Merlin never wavers in his speech; never doubts what he wants to say and says it no matter the consequences.
But here? Oh God. He can't even fucking begin to process the fact that he ushered Uther to death. He can't help but break over how after everything he did to keep Arthur's heart from breaking, he was made the instrument of tearing Arthur apart.
And he can't help but try to vocalise any of his agony out loud, but stutters trying to say I should have healed him. I should have saved him. I should have been the one to show you the goodness of magic. I should have —
“I wish that there was something more that I could have done.”
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bbc merlin - 03x10 Queen of Hearts
rewatching merlin is actually a sick and twisted way to spend your time, because even before arthur started to have his big run-ins with betrayal (yeah, he found about his mother, but who talked him out of that one?), he was hurt by the idea of merlin keeping secrets. that one last betrayal was built up brick by brick, slowly, and you get to watch it happen, you get to know it all before arthur even has the slightest clue, you get to see merlin drowning in the choices he has to make.
and, yeah, betrayal is one thing, but this isn't exactly about that. this is about secrets, how at this point in time, he cannot fathom the idea merlin would keep something from him. i know i say this a lot, but merlin really does know everything about arthur. he's there, always around, he sees and hears and feels, and he's the one arthur talks to, because who else, right? even arthur must be aware that merlin knows him better than anyone.
then, of course, you also have arthur's attempts at making sure merlin is okay, attempts at talking. time and time again he's noticed merlin being off, trying to figure out what the cause is. this was never a one way kind of thing. and it comes back to arthur asking for merlin's thoughts, advice, so on - it's all built on trust, it's built on the concept in arthur's head that merlin, of all people, will tell him everything there is to know.
the "last betrayal" was always different, was always going to be different, i mean even the very motivation, so to say, behind it is not comparable to the rest of it. but it's also because of scenes like this, that it's so different. merlin couldn't possibly be keeping secrets, right? not him, not from arthur.
it's like watching a car crash happen, seeing a heart get broken, all of it slowed down just for the pleasure of seeing every little detail. all the cracks that appear, the one's before the actual impact, the ones that throw fuel to the fire they don't even feel yet, the fire you can already see burning.
#bbc merlin#arthur pendragon#merlin#arthur x merlin#bradley james#colin morgan#arthur's bane was that merlin didn't trust him#not trusting arthur was merlin's fatal flaw
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Colin's reaction to Arthur being described as 'a hunky killing machine' vs Merlin's reaction to Arthur being a hunky killing machine
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Morse and drinking in the 70s...
Long....because I can't write short. And obviously, a lot of you will already know this stuff...
Just want to take a moment to talk about alcohol and alcoholism in the context of the early 1970s and remind folks of how totally and completely different it is from how we see it today.
Drunk driving had not been outlawed in most countries. Not only that, it was widely regarding as funny—funny enough to be used as a regular “gag” in movies. Problem drinking was also seen as funny. There were regular cartoon strips about it. The “drunk” was a funny stock character in all sorts of plays and movies.
Alcohol was ubiquitous. We’re not just talking liquid lunches. We’re talking drinking at work, while you work—just as you see in Endeavour. Think about that for a second.
And politely saying no wasn’t something you did without social consequences. It wasn’t just seen as a personal preference. Unless you had a specific, acceptable reason, turning down a drink was often seen as stand-offish and judgmental or as a social snub. Teetotalism was regarded as rather naive and ridiculous—not something any man or woman of the world would embrace.
In the early 1970s, there was no widespread understanding of alcoholism as a disease. It was still seen very much as the consequence of personal weakness—still a matter of “If you cared enough or tried hard enough, you wouldn’t do this so it must be a character flaw.”
Plus, most people, “normal” people don’t have problems with alcohol, so if you do then there’s something abnormal and defective about you—most likely something you brought upon yourself.
And as a “personal weakness” and a “defect,” the shame around it was profound and the secrecy matched. If someone went away for treatment, it was very much akin to an unwed mother going off to have her baby and then returning without the child. You never spoke of it. You pretended that it had never happened.
If you were a kind person, you also didn’t go out of your way to parade babies in front of her or talk constantly about children when she was with you. But refer to it directly? Never. Ask for help? Never. It was always something to be hidden. Everyone did their best to forget that it had ever happened and saw this as the "kindest" thing to do.
When Morse returns from his “cure,” it would simply be assumed that everyone would pretend that nothing unusual has happened. Why he’s just been off on a tour of the West Country and nothing else! Hope you had a lovely time! That sort of polite fiction was exactly what he would have expected upon his return. Anything more direct—at least in a public setting—would have been shocking to him and everyone else.
Where things break down, however, is in the more personal interactions. His relationship with Thursday is such that they can at least broach the topic of drinking. When they do, my impression is that Thursday is well-aware that Morse not “cured.” However, in the context of the time, saying this would be akin to saying, "You failed," because there was no disease model of alcholism in widespread use. You went to be cured and it worked or it didn't.
However, I'd also add that Thursday is almost to the breaking point with the cumulative strain he is under. He can’t cope with the “burden” of Morse being in a precarious state and he knows it. He feels desperately guilty about that—as well as about other things like Strange and Joan or about life having moved on so much while Morse was gone—and so he just shuts down.
Shutting down is Thursday’s go-to strategy when he’s overwhelmed. We’ve seen him do it many times before. And part of that for him, is that he pretends that the people around him are ok—even if they are anything but ok. Not surprisingly, he does it the most with the people he has the closest emotional ties with—Win, Joan, Sam, and Morse.
So the only way that Thursday can cope is by having Morse be perfectly fine. Conveniently, his preferred coping strategy fits exactly with his society's expectations about how alcoholism works. If Morse is "cured," you don’t need to worry about sparing him the constant offers of alcohol in the same way that the young unwed mother might hope to be spared babies. You certainly wouldn’t embarrass him (especially after he’s been through the humiliation of rehab) by drawing attention in any way to a possible to the idea that he still has a problem.
And finally, a last note on time context. The scene in the pub where Morse has that first drink after finding out that Joan is marrying Jim is utterly heartbreaking for so many reasons. One of those reasons, however, is that we know it’s the first drink—and that the first drink leads to the second, and so on and so forth. Then Morse says to Thursday, “They said the, the odd beer, the odd shot, does no harm…"Everything in moderation," they said,” and we automatically assume he’s lying.
I’m fairly sure that those scenes were meant to be interpreted through our modern viewpoint. However, it’s worth noting that again, the model of alcoholism in the 1970s was nothing like what we have today. The idea that someone with a drinking problems/addictions needs to abstain entirely was not even close to universal at that point. It’s perfectly possible that the advice Morse is quoting is the advice he received!
#itv endeavour#endeavour morse#fred thursday#shaun evans#roger allam#'if you say so' - Thursday didn't believe him#i think season 9 is all about Thursday having to choose between his son and his pseudo son#Thursday knows from the start he's going to leave but he's putting it off because of Endeavour#Thursday knows he's not ok and even Bright tells him he did his best but that Thursday can't do any more#with Sam being in trouble Thursday had to choose#'he was someone's son' 'but not mine'#that was the underlying tragedy of the whole season to me
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BTS rather than a 'Thursday' shot and no idea where its from but I love this photo... they all look so happy
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no, seriously, has no one asked Merthur?
Nope! Not one person! But I’m going to assume this is you asking for Merthur 😌
They are everything.
They are two halves of a whole, they are the sun and the moon, they are souls interwoven.
I have never seen a more romantic finale to a show than this one. There is nothing in this or any other world that could stop them from loving each other. They recognize each other, canonically, in every disguise. They recognize each other on their first meeting.
The fact that the world didn’t disintegrate after death separated them is absurd. You can’t have one without the other.
The sun would scorch the earth without the moon to balance it. And the moon would cast darkness, for it cannot shine without the sun.
Merthur: ♾️/100
Feel free to send me ships to rank :)
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Some bts shots from Apollo of our talented tached boy doing his stuff as a Director
Love the colours and composition of the first one
And that look of concentration 💀
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So… I want to talk about this scene and what it means to me:
Despite what happened in the last season, I think Thomas is actually a very pro-life person deep down.
When he held his lighter above the trenches at night, it formed an image like lighting a candle in the dark. However weak the light was, it was the only light in that war zone. In that moment, he was holding onto the little hope that is left.
“There must be more to life than this.”
To him, what brought him to despair years later was never the hatred he received as a gay man, he’s been facing it for such a long time after all. But it was the lost of hope for any chance of living a fulfilling life - a sense of purpose. “I have never felt such a lack of reason. Why am I here? What am I doing?” He asked. The fact that his profession was losing its significance, his teaching was deemed unorthodox, and even an aristocratic gay man can only seek temporary pleasure in a remote place but finally also resorted to an eternal escape… all these had finally led him to realise anything he had dreamt of was only a false hope.
Did he really want life to end? No, I don’t think so. He wanted life to be. He wanted to live - for once, for real. But he couldn’t. So he took his life with him, hopefully this time to a better place where it can truly be one that’s worth living.
Now, after all the hard times, I can only hope that his dream has finally come true. True to the end.
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There is a galaxy of interlaced tragedies happening in season 9 but for me the biggest one is that Thursday thinks Morse's drinking is one of his foibles like his grammatical prescriptivism or refusal to watch TV. Even if he accepts that Morse has a problem and its something deeper than a personal failing, like his numerous phobias (blood, heights), I don't know that Thursday has the personal capacity really get what that means-- he might intellectually know it, or have heard something along those lines, but I think in his gut he's disappointed and even a little disgusted at Morse for not being able to tough it out.
What makes their relationship so beautiful and compelling is that Thursday liked and chose Morse from the beginning despite the fact that he is (in terms of a 60s detective unit) a genuine freak, but Thursday is usually just as pleased as he is baffled by all the opera and ancient greek and poems. But this one thing he just doesn't get and can't accept, this young man he's poured so much time and effort into his just throwing it away on booze. Here's Thursday thinking "was I wrong in seeing that potential? Was it a waste of time to bring him up by hand?" Even when Morse is back there's a lingering frost there, a distance caused by that betrayal of trust-- Morse let him down, and he's pulling away when Morse needs his support now more than ever.
He may not say anything but that scene where he accepts a drink in front of Morse is a perfect example of how he just doesn't get it. It's not a pub, Morse can't get up and walk around or ask for a squash to nurse or anything that might relieve the moment, he just has to sit there and wallow. And Thursday seemingly has no idea what it takes to just sit there and watch. "We heard it flow, we heard it ripple. Do you understand that word, ripple? It is a sound you hear with your tongue! You put your tongue out of your mouth to taste it better!" Then there's the relapse and Thursday decides to just walk away. Some people can't be helped. It kills me.
#itv endeavour#endeavour morse#fred thursday#shaun evans#roger allam#sometimes it's hard not to think that the thursdays were endeavour's doom 🥺
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It was originally called 'Glasshouse', then 'Trial in the Trenches', and now it looks like it's called 'The Fallow Few'.
I think it's due this year, and it's maybe one of the reasons we're hearing a bit more from Bradley on social media, although that's just my thought.
It's worth following the director Josh Rappaport and actor Luke Brandon Field on Instagram as they will sometimes post little bits of info and BTS images 😊
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whatever happened to that war movie bradley james was supposed to be in?? there was a trailer that came out like a year or two ago which had bradley acting for his life in it and i never heard anything else about it? did i imagine it??
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