#the wicked day

[cabbageheadss]

You're a loyal friend, Merlin

MERTHUR WEEK 2023 | Day 4: favourite parallel + green ↳ @merthurweek2023

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

dude’s such a terrible liar it’s a wonder the whole of camelot didn’t know his secret by the end of the first episode.

[starrieisdelusional]

(gif from merthurdaily)

oh i feel sick

[obviouslyphosphorus]

“I didn’t want you to feel that you were alone”

[myths0f01d]

Uther, against all odds and everything that happened, still loved Arthur.

He died protecting him.

The whole wicked day episode is so tragic yet allows us to see the duality and everything once stripped at its bare

[helaenadream]

ok here’s what I think about merlin and uther. I think everything the show does is fine and perfect and congruent in tone. but if I could make some fun little changes I would say, okay, merlin clearly was an altruist once but by seasons 4-5 he’s more an altruist when he can be, when it’s easy, when it can’t hurt arthur (so is he really one at all?) and if we speed along that character development a little, then the wicked day doesn’t actually need morgana to do anything but react to her fathers death. merlin is impulsive, hurt, emotional. he looks at the comatose form of the man that enacted ruthless genocide on his people and the man that abused arthur and morgana all their lives and thinks, no, I can’t do this, I won’t breathe life back into this body. and lives with the guilt of that all his life.

[aliceyv]

10-year-old Mordred when the queen invites him over after he saves her son.

[morganlefaes]

The Wicked Day, Mary Stewart.

[astraea802]

Merlin Rewatch w/ Mom, 4x03

Aaaaand it's Uther's death episode.

Me: (ranting about how everyone decides to forgo logic in this episode just to make everything as awful and tragic as possible) Mom: It's just a show, sweetie. Me: Yes, I know, but I can still be mad when stupid things happen just to further the drama, when there were other ways to have them respond more in character. Or at least tell people stuff they should know! Mom: Well, you'll just have to write something better. Me: Mom. There are over 64,000 fanfics on one site alone that try to change various parts of the series and make the decision making make more sense, including this episode. So people have written stuff that's better. I am not alone in this frustration.

So essentially,

UPDATE:

I think I might be getting to the point where I'm annoying Mom with my commentary, I may need to back off and let her form her own opinions...

[hitchell-mope]

See. Morgana didn’t care about bringing magic back. She just wanted to rule the kingdom as her father’s replacement.

[emryswisdom]

AUUYUGHHHHHHGHG😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 THE WICKED DAY MAKES ME SUICIDAL😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[cabbageheadss]

"I've turned Arthur against [magic] forever. He'll never know who I really am."

BBC MERLIN ↳ 4x03: The Wicked Day

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

“the wicked day,” the most bipolar episode. one minute old!merlin’s getting piggyback rides from arthur and kicking him like a horse; the next arthur’s blaming magic for his father’s death and calling it pure evil, and merlin’s blaming himself for turning arthur against magic and ensuring he’ll have to hide his true self from him forever.

[hellerscape]

Arthur: That sorcerer killed my farther! It was the sorcerer’s fault and nothing else can explain it!😠🗡️

Gaius finding the necklace that would explain everything: 🤫🤫🤫

[merlin-knights]

The Wicked Day

(Merlin, 4x03)

@bbcmerlinbracket

[koalas-koalas-everywhere]

Watching Merlin season 4 for research purposes and I don't know whether to laugh or cry so I'll settle for screaming. As if switching from Lancelot's funeral to Agravaine being suspicious wasn't bad enough as a tone shift, the next episode literally starts with a PARADE. JUST. I rewatched TDH yesterday so I've had time to settle, but I can just imagine someone watching TDH and The Wicked Day back to back and. Just. Tears and snot tearing down their face then suddenly A PARADE. IT'S ARTHUR'S BIRTHDAY. Then Uther dies which is arguably once again something to celebrate. Just... the tone, man. The tone.