#you would think since I love a class divide homoerotic friendship with some unhealthy devotion in play they’d do it for me but… | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

cabeswaterdrowned · 5 months ago

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I’m going to be real maybe something will change especially since I think they’re supposed to have a tragic bent to them eventually and yk I like that sort of thing but so far I really don’t find m*rthur interesting. Not as in I don’t think there’s subtext I think it’s there I just don’t feel anything about it.

#I enjoy them both well enough individually although not with much depth of feeling (am liking Merlin more now that he’s getting more jaded)#but I find their other dynamics have more pull and when they’re together they collapse more into archetypes #you would think since I love a class divide homoerotic friendship with some unhealthy devotion in play they’d do it for me but…#I think I need more antagonism and/or psychosexual power plays to have emotions about this sort of thing #if I had to pick a slash ship in this show I think it’d be Arthur/Lancelot which could offer a lil more of that #I think Merlin and Lancelot have a lot of chemistry but again not really having feelings / they don’t push buttons #I like Morgana/Gwen and Arthur/Gwen #and Morgana/Merlin their enemies era is going to do a lot for me I feel #(and I will say idk if this is just because Katie McGrath plays one way opposite women but I do have to keep reminding myself Morgauise is #her sister why are these actresses playing it like that? confused by the choices being made there)#s speaks #s watches merlin #I felt like I needed to see all of the first two seasons before speaking on that so now I’m almost halfway through I can

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