Colin Morgan - Interview About His Debut Novel
Colin Morgan speaks to The Irish Times about the process of getting The Ballad of Ronan McCoy published
A modern Gwainevere Au where Gwen is brought into the ER, after an accident leaves her with severe memory loss, though she recognizes her doctor from somewhere in her distant past. While recovering, images start to seep back to her, images from a different time, she’s certain from a different world, and she’s certain that the person from her past has something to do with it, she just has to figure out how. Add in an immortal wizard and the once and future king, running on angst and coffee, and the plot thickens, like one of Merlin’s soups.
RUPERT YOUNG as SIR LEON MERLIN — 3.12 • The Coming of Arthur: Part One
the thing that bothers me most about the whole exile arc isn’t even that arthur exiles gwen necessarily (though i maintain that the way it was done was still absolutely unnecessarily cruel) but it's more so the way that the narrative presents it. like the narrative framing the writers chose to go with is essentially that what he's doing is wrong because WE, the audience, know that she didn't actually cheat - therefore he’s overreacting about something she didn't do. instead of it being that a) regardless of whether she cheated or not it would STILL BE WRONG for him to exile her even if she did - because she’s a commoner without status and a single woman being thrown out of the only home she’s ever known without provisions or a place to go on the pain of death, and that he’s abusing his power without realising it. (like what happened to all that about class equality... ok!!). and also that b) regardless of whether she cheated she would still be sympathetic and that one mistake doesn't define you and that relationships are messy and people have flaws. idk it is just so ridiculous to me that she’s not allowed to make even one mistake before he exiles her after all that talk about how he would give up his kingdom for her. its a choice!
like ultimately regardless of whether she did it or not. how he responded was still wrong and it really bothers me that that ENTIRE arc (which did nothing but traumatise her!!!!) is made to about arthur and him deciding to take his mistake back and realising he regrets it. like SHE GETS EXILED and somehow the story is still only interested in arthur…. like truly what the fuck. they just put her through trauma and then discarded it all without ever giving it the space it needed to be processed either by her or the audience. it’s the way her pain and trauma are just sooo constantly sidelined by the show's narrative in order to better serve arthur and his 'character development' or whatever. im just so done !
merlin and hunith. because their relationship means the world to me.
Merlin | 4.12 "The Sword in the Stone - Part 1"
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*through gritted teeth* when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my character. when i do something wrong and am politely asked to change my behavior its just a simple request to fix a problem and not an indictment of my worth as a human being
not to go on an arwen rampage and its been a minute since i watched the show but it pisses me off so much that gwen's role as a good woman/wife is basically her being fine with wathever fucking shit arthur pulls. almost as if the perfect lady never makes a fuss about anything :^) unlike bad women, who always annoy their husbands about anniversaries and flowers >:(
sometimes a song is good because you saw it on a fan edit for your favorite ship like ten years ago
Reading sports headlines while pretending sports doesn't exist suggests a fascinating world of magic and whimsy.
