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Ya’ll ever think about how Gwaine stopped in the middle of a bar brawl to introduce himself/flirt with a cute guy because it lives rent free in my brain
all gwaine does is flirt with merlin and drink and flirt with merlin and protect the underprivileged against the overpowered and flirt with merlin
Arthur: We need to create a distraction.
Percival: You want me to try? If I flex real hard I can make my shirt explode off of my body.
Arthur: Wait, you can seriously do that?
Gwaine: Oh, yeah! I've seen him do it. One of the buttons flew off and hit Elyan.
Gwaine: so you have magic
Merlin: that is correct
Gwaine: and you can do just about anything
Merlin: I’m not sure where this is going but sure
Percival: Merlin don’t-
Gwaine: apple pie. cheese.
Merlin: sorry?!
Gwaine: apple pie
Gwaine: cheese
Gwaine: can you do it
Merlin:
Percival, holding the bridge of his nose:
Say what you want about BBC Merlin, but none of the actors had to go as hard as they did with their performances. It was a show for kids, the CGI was shite, and on Robin Hood (which was the series before Merlin) no one except Richard Armitage bothered to act as seriously.
But the fact that they did is what makes it so popular, what makes it endure, what pushes it and its characters and ships up the list in the fandom metrics each year. The actors took it seriously, they left an amazing legacy, particularly Colin Morgan and Bradley James. Even the devastation of the ending couldn’t break the fandom apart because it was sad, but it was so well done you almost didn’t mind. And that’s why a show which ended eight years ago is still so strong in the hearts of so many people.