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noirineverysense · 10 months

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The arab states who use violence against migrants and gay people and do evil things like executions as well as interfere in wars and murder people in other countries, try and cover their insidious actions and protect their reputations by holding big sport events i.e. sportswashing...

...which is why sport events should take place in europe/us so we can stand up against this 🙂

#the bbc is such a joke #sportswashing #they just want money they dont care what a british analyst thinks

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sboochi · 7 months

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Pretty sure "ease him" doesn't mean anything but I'm NOT rewriting that now >:/

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#good omens #bbc merlin #aziraphale #crowley #arthur pendragon #merlin #magic omens au #crowley stop trying to look cool this is NOT the right moment #this took 16 hours im not even joking #entirely my fault bc i insist on drawing the speech bubbles manually #tune in for next part for some thrilling action! (more hostility)#my art #long post

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myoonmii · 5 months

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Some might say he didn’t take the news well

#Merlin #Merlin bbc #arthur pendragon #meme redraw #Merthur #redrawing Merlin as memes until I get my motivation back day 2 #Merlin??? a socerer???#this guy are you serious ??#bbc arthur #merlin fanart #Merthur fanart #merlin memes #jokes aside he really did have to take a moment there #this was Arthur in his head

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noodles-and-tea · 1 month

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#oh donkey Arthur your 10 seconds of screen time will forever live in my heart #a small throw away joke to make Arthur look stupid?#no sir what you’re looking at is something so special and important to me #I’ve noticed that there’s a pattern for the episodes that’s like it goes a serieous episode followed by a silly filler episode #so actually it goes plot then filler I’m realising I just hadn’t used proper terms for it cause I’m stupid #but after the last episodes of s2 and then the two at the beginning of s3 #I was waiting for my silly episode reward #and boy howdy that was a silly episode #(im sick atm please just polite laugh and nod and be on your way)#my art #Merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon

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abisalli · 4 months

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ok hear me out: AU in which dragons are not yet extinct and behave like pets and then shenanigans ensue (like usual)

#merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #dragons #my art #digital art #merlin fanart #Merlin to Arthur at some point: Arthur be nice to Arthur (jr) >:(#Arthur: WHAT did you name the DRAGON????#also the last dragon is inspired by the pendragon crest tehee #Merlin naming a red and gold dragon who keeps getting into trouble Arthur (Jr.): I feel like there's a joke here

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deuteragonist1 · 1 year

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Wait a damn minute Merlin is an actual nightmare of a servant. Imagine you're the Prince and all of a sudden and only two seconds after surviving an assassination attempt you're stuck with this scrawny, clumsy fucking dude with a really shifty air about him who spends literal days in the tavern with zero notice, steals your food, tried to spy on a guest, doesn't let you hunt, can never fucking be found when you need him even though he is the literal manservant to the prince, which you would think should be a priority but apparently he has better things to do, and is always talking like he's the only thing standing between you and certain death???? Then he gives you attitude? Literally I would throw things at him too. Arthur is misunderstood he's actually being too nice

#i actually love merlin okay this is a joke #but like damn he did suck at his job #disclaimer the author of this post does not condone mistreating your manservants in any way #if you have a manservant you should count yourself very lucky and show them appreciation #kiss them on the forehead #maybe ask them out #just throwing out ideas #being scrawny isn't a crime but merlin being scrawny is very personal to me #and to arthur i guess #merthur #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #bbc arthur #arthur pendragon

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fact-dogsarehappiness · 20 days

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They’re all at Tesco’s at the same time

#imagine bo burnham’s prolonged eye contact joke #please someone see my vision #good omens #good omens 2 #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #crowley #anthony j crowley #aziraphale #a z fell #merlin #sir leon #leon the long suffering #i’ve changed my mind #merlin’s should say coffee

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liminaltey · 3 months

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Sherlock Holmes and his brother Microsoft

#sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #Sherlock #sherlock fandom #mycroft holmes #Mycroft #holmes brothers #did someone already make this joke

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masterofiodine · 4 months

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sort of binge-watched bbc ghosts and niw i can't stop thinking about them

(tap for better quality)

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dollopheadsandclotpoles · 9 months

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I believe it has been conjured by sorcery

#bbc merlin #mine #merlinedit #bbcmerlinedit #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #merlin x arthur #THEY ARE SO CUTE #bradley james #colin morgan #them having these like inside joke equivalent things is just... my favourite thing of all time #this and the stew and also arthur lying about losing a bet to morgana #merlin holding back his laughing ❤ ❤ while Arthur is just straight facing it hdkfghdfk #also side note but Arthur eats SO sluttily like excuse me sir

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thebeedleboat · 10 months

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"I know Pâté can read, but... can he read?"

#critical role #imogen temult #pate de rolo #This joke is from bbc ghosts

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carpe-mamilia · 6 months

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Ghosts’ Larry Rickard Explains Why They Chose the Captain’s First Name

Photo: Monumental,Guido Mandozzi

It couldn’t be a joke. That was one rule laid down by the Ghosts creators when it came to choosing a first name for Willbond’s character. Until series five, the WWII ghost had been known only as The Captain – a mystery seized upon by fans of the show.

“It was the question we got asked more than anything. His name,” actor and writer Larry Rickard tells Den of Geek. “Once we got to series three, you could see that we were deliberately cutting away and deliberately avoiding it. We were fuelling the fire because we knew at some point we’d tell them.”

In “Carpe Diem”, the episode written by Rickard and Ben Willbond that finally reveals The Captain’s death story, they did tell us. After years of guessing, clue-spotting and debate, Ghosts revealed that The Captain’s first name is James. At the same time, we also learned that James’ colleague Lieutenant Havers’ first name was Anthony.

The ordinariness of those two names, says Rickard, is the point.

“The only thing we were really clear about is that we didn’t want one of those names that only exists in tellyland. It shouldn’t be ‘Cormoran’ or ‘Endeavour’. They should just be some men’s names and they’re important to them. The point was that they were everyday.”

Choosing first names for The Captain and Havers was a long process not unlike naming a baby, Rickard agrees. “It almost comes down to looking at the faces of the characters and saying, what’s right?”

“We talked for ages. For a long time I kept thinking ‘Duncan and James’, and then I was like ah no! That would have turned it into a gag and been awful!” Inescapably in the minds of a certain generation, Duncan James is a member of noughties boyband Blue. “Maybe with Anthony I was thinking of Anthony Costa!” Rickard says in mock horror, referencing another member of the band.

Lieutenant Havers wasn’t just The Captain’s second in command while stationed at Button House; he was also the man James loved. Because homosexuality was criminalised in England during James’ lifetime, he was forced to hide his feelings for Anthony from society, and to some extent even from himself.

In “Carpe Diem”, the ghosts (mistakenly) prepare for the last day of their afterlives, prompting The Captain to finally tell his story. Though not explicit about his sexual identity, the others understand and accept what he tells them – and led by Lady Button, all agree that he’s a brave man.

Getting the balance right of what The Captain does and doesn’t say was key to the episode. “It wasn’t just a personal choice of his to go ‘I’m going to remain in the closet’,” explains Rickard. “There wasn’t an option there to explore the things that either of them felt. That couldn’t be done back then – there are so many stories which have come out since the War about the dangers of doing that.

“We wanted to tell his personal story but also try to ensure that there was a level at which you understood why they couldn’t be open, that even in this moment where he’s finally telling the other ghosts his story, he never comes out and says it overtly because that would be too much for him as a character from that time.

“He says enough for them to know, and enough for him to feel unburdened but it’s in the fact that they’re using their first names which militarily they would never have done, and in the literal passing of the baton”.

The baton is a bonus reveal when fans learned that The Captain’s military stick wasn’t a memento of his career, but of Havers. As James suffers a fatal heart attack during a VE day celebration at Button House, Anthony rushes to his side and the stick passes from one to the other as they share a moment of tragic understanding.

“From really early on, we had the idea that anything you’re holding [when you die] stays with you. So it wasn’t just your clothes you were wearing, we had the stuff with Thomas’ letter reappearing in his pocket and so on. And the assumption being that it was something The Captain couldn’t put down, it felt so nice to be able to say it was something he didn’t want to put down.”

Rickard lists “Carpe Diem”, co-written with Ben Willbond, among his series five highlights. He’s pleased with the end result, praises Willbond’s performance, and loved being on set to see Button House dressed for the 1940s. He’s particularly pleased that a checklist of moments they wanted to land with the audience all managed to be included. “Normally something’s fallen by the wayside just because of the way TV’s made, it’s always imperfect or it’s slightly rushed, but it feels like it’s all there.”

Rickard and Willbond also knew by this point in the show’s lifetime, that they could trust Ghosts fans to pick up on small details. “Nothing is missed,” he says. “Early on, you’re always thinking, is that going to get across? But once we got to series five, there are little tiny things within corners of shots and you know that’s going to be spotted. Particularly in that very short exchange between Havers and the Captain. We worried less about the minutiae of it because you go, that’s going to be rewound and rewatched, nothing will be missed.”

The team were also grateful they’d resisted the temptation to tell The Captain’s story sooner. “We’d talked about it every series since series two, whether or not now was the time, but because he’s such a hard and starchy character in a lot of ways you needed the time to understand his softer side I think before you had that final honest beat from him.”

“What a ridiculously normal name to have so much weight put on it for five years,” laughs Rickard fondly. “Good old James.”

From Den of Geek

#bbc ghosts #bless you larry for doing all these den of geek interviews #I wonder if they just did one marathon session with him #inside ghosts was kind of disappointing this week #I guess Ben just wants to let the episode speak for itself and you're like yes but I would like to hear you talk about every detail #trust me we will be interested #long post #I really thought they loved the joke of nearly saying the Captain’s name so much that they'd never reveal it #so it's so lovely that they were like no this is not a joke name; he's a real man with an ordinary name #and we are going to tell you that in the most devastatingly romantic way #I am eating my words and they are delicious with that spread on top #also 'that's going to be rewound and rewatched' = 'I know you people are loopy so here is content specifically for you'#bbc ghosts spoilers

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noodles-and-tea · 25 days

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Merlin is dying of laughter off-screen, obviously

#I had to look up whether toast existed in medieval times #I mean obviously it did but I doubt it was called just toast #anyways we’ve all seen before that I am prone to creative license #cut to British elementary school for the sake of a Sherlock joke #my art #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin emrys #merthur

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benisasoftboi · 7 months

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I am so happy with the conclusion of BBC Ghosts.

There were so many things I loved about the final series that I can't even keep it all straight in my brain, I'll have to rewatch it all (and the Christmas special, of course! Must remember it's the not the true end yet!)

But something I can immediately say I loved was what they didn't do. See, that line in the trailer that turned out to be from episode 5 - about there being a pattern to when they move on - worried me. One of the best things about the show, to me, is how there truly is not any reason at all to why the ghosts are there, or when they go. It's something the creators have said over and over, and that the show has always backed up; we saw so many times that, unlike in most ghost media, addressing unfinished business or achieving emotional resolution changes absolutely nothing. Pat hit some sort of emotional resolution three times. And Julian realised the importance of family, and Robin saved someone’s life, and Thomas discovered the truth of his death, and so on and so on. Finding closure isn't the end, and equally, the end isn't predicated by a climatic conclusion. It just happens. And the same is true for why people become ghosts. It just happens. And you exist, and fill your days, and then you’re gone. And no one knows why.

It's kind of the most agnostic television show I've ever seen.

I love that. Every other afterlife show I've ever seen has some kind of reward and punishment system. Or at least says that there's a reason for things, some kind of higher power at play, not necessarily a god but something like it. Even the American adaptation felt the need to bring Hell into it, which is why I need to specify that I'm only talking about the British version here. And I feel like a lot of fans wanted there to be reasons too, or felt like there simply had to be, that it wasn't even a question. I get why - it's not just because it's the standard for ghost narratives. It's really uncomfortable to think about the randomness of life and death. But Mary didn't go because of anything that happened before that day, and Cap was never going to go because he came out, and one day, when they've all gone, there won't have been a reason for it.

Because the real point of BBC Ghosts is that there is no point. You’ve just got to make it through the days, surrounded by people that irritate you, trapped in a confusing world where you’re mostly powerless. And it sucks, and you're angry, and sad, and bored as hell. And you also find happiness in the mundane chaos, and you get really good at chess, and watch the ants in the garden, and write bad poetry, and read terrible romance novels, and gamble money you don't have, and go camping, and play games, and learn French, and watch reality TV, and have sex with a decapitated Tudor nobleman’s body, and dance to old music, and look at the stars, and find that you actually really love all those annoying people after all, and that’s the point.

#bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #bbc ghosts series 5 #but imagine if they prove me wrong by melodramatically killing them all off at christmas though lmao actually that would be hilarious do it #also love so very much that they finished on a gay joke they know who's on the front lines for them <3 #god it's a cliche but really do already miss 'em

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capswarmedals · 3 months

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i cannot word how grateful i am that the six idiots chose james' death to be THE last ever death shown bc like... you gotta watch the series to understand how james changes and develops and how he leaves things to the last minute in terms of coming out and confessing or how I've noticed that he taps his feet or swagger stick when sitting sometimes. it's these small little details that make you understand his character. he isn't a stiff upper lip mean man with a secret, he's a soft teddy bear trying his best (but failing) to hide the fact that he is fruity to the people who already know but couldn't bring up the courage to tell him. oh my God i love the six idiots so fucking much because of this. he is silly in ways I cannot imagine

#THE comfort character #the captain bbc ghosts #ghosts bbc #bbc ghosts captain #the captain ghosts #bbc ghosts s5 #bbc ghosts #THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS MAN #he is me #NOT JOKING

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natjennie · 7 months

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i am so fucking glad cap can just be gay now. like it isnt a question, there isnt a moment of hesitation, it isn't covered up. he just is. and the he that he is is gay. like in previous seasons, that "lets not be too hasty" might have still happened, but the ghosts would make a face. and cap would clear his throat and deflect and bloviate like "by which I mean, of course, that I'm very interested. ahem. in the upcoming weather, and- well, eaughghg" but now he just gets to. find a man attractive. and say it. and no one bats an eye. I'm just so proud of him. and so glad he has that.

like, I can imagine the look on his face when button house holds a pride meetup and everyone is sitting around talking about their experiences and just. casually being queer and existing together. and he can just sit in one of the plastic chairs and listen and close his eyes and pretend for a moment that he is part of that community. yknow what i mean.

#i just want him to be able to sit and listen to queer experiences and see queer people #being openly and casually intimate and it being normal #like that would heal him so right #i know it #bbc ghosts #anyway im so glad they gave him that moment.#i know its a dick joke i know but i think its emotional.#ghost5 #ghosts s5 #ghosts spoilers #the captain

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