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myrustypeopleskills · 9 months

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myrustypeopleskills · 1 year

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I swear to GOD the way Arthur's face goes from fond to nervous to terrified during the magic reveal is of the hardest parts of the episode to watch

#and for me it’s the way he tried to like #move away but can’t and kinda panics a little cuz he’s injured and trapped #full circle to #I’m trapped with MERLIN Merlin who would never hurt me never lie to me #but he did #and either way Arthur is trapped #ugh UGH #why this is the last episode I’ll never understand

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myrustypeopleskills · 1 year

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it was absolutely buck fucking wild for the BBC to end merlin on christmas eve. we truly do not discuss that enough. they could have waited until January. they did not need to air the finale when they did. no one fucking forced them to do that i bet you my life on that. christmas eve people are with their families they're watching the Muppets they're having a good time no one is thinking "let's watch the beeb." and then like some weird kid in the family is like "oh the merlin finale is on" and now you're watching the most homoerotic death scene in the history of cinema? grandma is passed out on the couch kids are crying and king arthur is being cradled by his most beloved? what the fuck was the plan here. give me a reason

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myrustypeopleskills · 1 year

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no because the line "the story we have been a part of will live long in the minds of men" has always fucked me up. from the moment it aired. because it's like kilgharrah is making a reference to arthuriana, he is talking about how King Arthur will become a legend, become a story, and how he will not be forgotten, and how he will be important. but then it is also the writers telling us, the viewer, how we will not forget this story, that it will stay with us even when it is gone. and now, now it's almost 10 years since we heard that line and it fucks me up. it just fucks me up because it's true!! it's been ten years!! and how were the writers supposed to even know where we (the fandom) would be in 10 years!! and i know we joke about the tomfoolery of this show (deserved!) but what still remains at the end is that it lives long, that the story remains with us. it preservers!! we persevere!! what the FUCK !!!!!!

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myrustypeopleskills · 2 years

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Words from “The Torn-Up Road” by Richard Siken

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myrustypeopleskills · 2 years

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arthur was born of magic, a deal forged in the old religion. we know the story-- his mother, through no lack of want or trying, could not bear life, and so his father bargained with life itself to have a son.

without magic, arthur would not be alive.

now we take that sentence-- without magic, arthur would not be alive-- and we see shades of its meaning throughout the show. time and time again, we are shown that magic is the force that saves arthur's life from harm, and so arthur would have surely died several times had magic not intervened.

and, quite literally, arthur would not have been born without magic.

but with the first meaning-- magic has saved arthur's life-- is easily interpreted as "merlin has saved arthur's life". and it's true, we get that in canon, it's the foundation of a good majority of the show. merlin saves arthur's life using his magic, time and time again. without merlin, arthur would not be alive.

without merlin, arthur would not be alive.

now here is where it gets interesting.

because merlin is magic itself. merlin goes beyond being a human who employs magic in order to accomplish goals or do as he wills. merlin is magic itself. his human iteration has been foretold for as long as the old religion has known it. he has existed long before his body, his mind existed. magic has been a part of the fabric of the universe since its creation-- so, too, has merlin, because merlin is magic itself.

so we get the obvious-- merlin saves arthur's life using magic.

but.

magic is what created arthur. magic is what gave arthur life. without magic, arthur would not be alive.

merlin is magic itself.

so that means, long before merlin was even a thought, magic breathed life into arthur. and because merlin is magic itself, the very source that is channeled through merlin, the very thing that makes merlin who he is, created arthur.

without merlin, arthur would not be alive.

and there's the destiny in it all. before i was even born, i made you for me. you were mine from the moment i gave us life.

and merlin is the one who gives him life, time and time again. and merlin is the one who gives him the rest that will allow him to live again, and is the one who will find him when life enters his body once more.

merlin is magic itself. and, after all, without magic, arthur would not be alive.

#ahhhhhh #this is so well written

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myrustypeopleskills · 2 years

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