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botanicallyinclinednerd · 4 years

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Shout out to BBC Merlin for literally killing off a character and then having the absolute AUDACITY and BALLS to claim he was only mostly dead and dragging his ass back to life fully healthy two minutes later.

Leon was dead. He was fully dead. His eyes were open and on a fixed spot, he was not breathing (shout out to Rupert Young’s convincing acting of a corpse, with bonus points for being so convincing when Leon’s allegedly still alive).

#I'm glad they did it and im sure they told him to act like a corpse to scare viewers for that minute before we know hes still kicking #but he was so fucking convincing you cant look at that scene and go 'ah yes. a living man'#because hes DEAD #its just mind blowing that they did that and expected the fan base to go 'ah okay he was only mostly dead allowing for this magical cup #to save him.'#NO #its because bbc needed a way to move the plot along so they killed leon told his actor to act like a corpse #then went 'psych!' and brought him back from the dead using plot an a magic cup #leon literally says 'I was dead'#this is canonical dialouge]#im complaining but im also not because leon is my favorite and im so glad they brought him back but he was dead #side note: the only time's he reacted/ showed any sign of life at all was when #iseldir was touching him. and it was slight head movements and sluggish blinking #im not saying iseldir is secretly a necromancer except. yes. thats exactly what i am saying #liv talks merlin #bbc merlin #merlin #sir leon #the coming of arthur #this is why i hc leon as immortal #its not even hc really

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