#merlin 1x08

[artchael]

"Where are you, Emrys? Emrys. Help us. Please! They're coming."

DAY 12: TUNNEL @merlinktober <- day 11 / day 13 ->

[xviruserrorx]

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[purpleplaid17]

#what if… what if instead of pushing her away Merlin actually helped Morgana with magic stuff and like confided in her and they bonded over it?

#what if they actually allowed them to fight together against Uther in a way that didn’t cause Morgana to feel like she HAD to go a darker and more twisted route to bring magic to Camelot?

#what if they built off this specific scene and allowed them to be friends? what would the show be then?? #I think it would have been better. a show where Morgana and Merlin were able to work with Arthur to make a Camelot that was better for everyone. (via @wtungsten)

I wouldn’t see an innocent child executed. What harm has he ever done anyone?

MERLIN – Season 1; Episode 8; The Beginning of the End

[aithusar]

MERLIN (1.08)

↳ The Beginning of the End

[merlin-gifs]

Katie: Do you remember we played it 2 different ways? Colin: Yeah. Katie: There was one other way that’s uh… Jeremy: It was a little bit too sexy really, wasn’t it? Katie: Yes, there was, a lof of-- Jeremy: I thought “Hang on, wait a second, you're smiling at him too much.” Colin: It was a bit too flirty, wasn’t it? Katie: I thought it might be an interesting sort of sideline story, but apparently not. Jeremy: No, I came in and stamped on that. Katie: Yeah, no, that was my idea that was obviously useless.

MERLIN | 1x08 "The Beginning of the End"

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

rewatching “the beginning of the end”—seeing morgana so kind and compassionate and selfless, knowing what she’ll become in series 3—is just painful. “what if magic isn’t something you choose? what if it chooses you?” merlin giving her this look and morgana asking why he’s looking at her like that. ugh, what could’ve been, how things might have been different, if he hadn’t listened to gaius or the dragon, if he'd confided in her about his magic and then helped her with her own. even if in the end it didn't keep her from turning to evil and on everyone, because the show needed her to be the villain and probably would have found some other way to accomplish that if not the (horribly written, nonsensical) way it did—they couldn't have given us this first? couldn't have given us merlin and morgana sneaking around using magic together, being each other's confidant and supporter? couldn’t have given merlin a friend who knew his secret and was around for more than a handful of episodes? couldn’t have given morgana a friend when she was feeling lonely and lost who understood what she was going through and would try to help her instead of using and corrupting her?

[purpleplaid17]

(via @schweetheart)

MERLIN (2008 - 2012) Arthur & Morgana ▶ Season 1, Episode 08: “The Beginning of the end”

[adhd-merlin]

I can't even think of something funny to say just look at it

[mr-merlin]

colin morgan in ‘humans’ 9/∞

[morganayuri]

return of arthur chili pepper necklace yayyyy everyone cheered

[pippin-katz]

I made a post about this a while back here if anyone’s interested

arthur in this scene breaks me entirely. he's still in his "idolizing uther" phase. he's just hanging back guiltily with his head down and his eyes averted even when morgana and uther start shouting, even when uther is talking to him. but then uther snaps and tries to choke morgana and judging from her and arthur's faces this is probably the first time uther lays a hand on her. and just. the way arthur jumps up at that with his hand on his sword? and he's just standing there unsure if he should do something? i don't know if it's just a reflex but everything about this scene just breaks me so much.

and also we get some hints from other exchanges that uther has locked arthur up for disobeying orders before or at least threatened him to do so (and it's obvious that arthur's emotionally abused anyway) so his reaction to uther's anger at first (hanging his head down, standing to the side, looking away) is typical response to a bully: just make yourself as small as possible, don't provoke them, don't do anything and they'll stop, they'll go away, but then uther comes at morgana and suddenly arthur jumps up and ugh I'm not mentally stable enough for this.

[artchael]

"Halt, or I'll run you through."

DAY 8: PATROL @merlinktober <- day 7 / day 9 ->

[merlinemrys]

"showing mercy can be a sign of strength" even all the way back in s1 he's like this... god the way arthur is good to his core. he's defending a druid from his father's blind injustice & i know its like a Joke or whatever to be like oh arthur's dumb he's honestly kinda evil he needs to reject his father fully but like. the thing about arthur is that, though it might take him a minute to get there, he will do the right thing

[centurieslove]

don't look at me I'm thinking about the parallels between uther's distrust of magic and s5 merlin's distrust of mordred

[someguyinc]

ik his ass is not thinking about the nature of choice in bbc merlin again !! 😂😂🙏🏽

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

Oh ok, I already hated Uther but now I want his head on a pike