happy merlin finale anniversary 2025 <3
5 times pete saved ray + 1 time ray saved pete
THE LONG WALK (2025) dir. Francis Lawrence
collie parker called out for mcvries when he shot the soldier ☹️☹️☹️ the only other boy he thought would want to help him didnt ☹️☹️☹️ he took his own life so the soldiers couldnt take it from him ☹️☹️☹️ he tried to start a rebellion but the other boys just kept walking ☹️☹️
#collie being native despising the system yet needing to join the walk to propel his life forward finding that solidarity with the other boys#so much so that they believed the others would join him in rebelling yet they all kept walking#despite a shared struggle and hardship that was living in this world the other boys of all different races and ethnicities from different#from different states kept walking! there’s so many native deaths and disappearances and hardship that is ignored. I don’t think the boys#ignored collies death but that plea from him for revolution goes ignored#I think of all the enviormental activism from native Americans that will get moment every once in a while but ultimately is forget#how so many native people put in the work but remain unrecognized like ultimately collies death was one of the many that day and will go on#to be if the walk continues every year which we don’t get a clear answer for#there’s also something about the choice of collie being Native American in the movie in connection to King writing this book during the 60s#during the Vietnam war and also the time period of a lot of social civil activism from not only African Americans and women but natives too#I had no clue the red power movement was even a thing till I was specifically assigned a project on a specific activist in college#anyway I haven’t read the book nor do I feel like I articulated any of this properly as it’s 4am rn but tried my best#also shoutout John Trudell
@delicatepointeofview your tags go CRAZY
#reblogging again with your tags because they add so much#it's extra heartwrenching/kind of infuriating because pete eventually does attempt a revolutionary act by shooting the major!!!#he realizes the system cannot be changed from within and shoots the major out of love for ray but he couldn't find that will before#nobody could do that for collie#and maybe if pete had answered collie's call he'd never have had to lose ray in the first place#there's something there for sure#something very specific to indigeneity#collie parker#one of my friends once told me being indigenous & an activist is kinda like being a canary in a coal mine#only at least with canaries in coal mines ppl pay attention to the dead bird and change course#—#I had never heard that canaries in a coal mine expression but it does fit so well with this topic#and there is absolutely something there that it took Rays love and story to change Pete’s perspective to get him to go through w/ rebellion#that even though the system didn’t work for him before his childhood his parents passing the drunk uncle? the foster system#he still had some kind of hope in the world#constrasted with collie who kind of knew from the beginning that system doesn’t work#I haven’t read the book so idk and haven’t rewatched the film since my first watch but don’t we see collie spit at the cop that came to see#them walk? there is already a hatred for this system an urge to rebel perhaps already planned#or at least thought about before that he believes with the rest of the boys on his side it could be accomplished#but that canary goes overlooked it tries to fly out the mine because of the bad air quality yet the miners think we can still make it#a little longer take a chance to mine more for the man before coming up for clear air#they can keep walking further they’ve made it all this way they have to go further for just a bit longer#they have to hear the shot ring out and keep walking#see the bird fall and keep mining#for their wish#for gold or oil or whatever else you mine for that eventually becomes riches#riches over human life your own and others because that gets you out of the mine it gets you out of the system#supposedly#we see in the end regardless the winner is haunted and forever changed
I had a wish for a long time. For years actually, but…
I’ve changed my wish in the last couple days.
The Long Walk (2025) dir. Francis Lawrence
Even though only fifty of us get picked in the lottery, all of the boys in this country put in for it. I'm not exaggerating. Everybody puts in for it, even though it's not required, 'cause we're all so fuckin' desperate. What does that tell you? What? Nobody signs up for this. Not really.
The Long Walk (2025) dir. Francis Lawrence
Heated rivalry is proof we need to kill the binge watch format and go back to weekly appointment viewing . Nothing better than when there’s a show airing new episodes once a week and your whole tumblr ecosystem is thriving on the nourishment of two men fucking raw on their screens .
Merlin and Gwaine: *joking with each other, flirting, laughing and generally having a great time*
Arthur Pendragon, walking next to them, who thought this was going to be his solo quest:
yoda-bor