LMK X BNHA Smashes My 2 Favorite Interests Together

please get a lock on that damn door

I'm rewatching BBC Merlin for the hundredth time and just need to talk about The Witchfinder episode from season 2 and how this impacted Merlin's decision to keep his magic a secret.

By now, Merlin has been in Camelot long enough to see how Gaius is a trusted advisor to Uther. They've been friends for decades. Uther trusts Gaius as much as he is capable of trusting anyone.

And yet. And yet Uther STILL orders the execution of his most trusted advisor on the word of the Witchfinder.

To Uther, the years of service and trust mean nothing in the face of sorcery. Uther tried to apologize (ish) later, and rightfully so, Gaius refused to just brush the near execution aside.

Now think about Merlin. He has come to care about Arthur as a person at this point, not just part of his destiny, but they aren't as close as we know they will be later.

Merlin has been traumatized by seeing his father figure almost die because the king was blinded by his hatred of sorcery. Merlin knows it was almost his own execution here.

It's no wonder he didn't want to tell Arthur at this point. If Uther was ready to kill Gaius, we know canonically he was fine with Merlin dying.

Once Arthur became king, I believe Merlin still remembered this. We know what Merlin said: he didn't want to put Arthur in this position, to have to make the choice of life or death. But I believe there was still this deep seated fear that his years of service and council would never be enough to out weigh the death sentence of being a sorcerer in Camelot.

Illegally streaming the Turkish dub of Merlin with auto-translated English subtitles as god intended

Gaius has his priorities straight at the Round Table

Elyan is a little more self deprecating in this version

At least the knighting ceremony is going well. Up Knight has risen.

The Mercelot of it all lmao???

Arthur goes rogue due to the stress

Introducing ✨Circuswain✨

the immortal lives a lonely life

I really wished they had let everyone have a chance to pick something out for the exercises & not just Angel. It could’ve been a fun way to not only show trust to the gang to let them pick out things to try but also help show each other different ways to get to know them better aswell as us the audience.

Charlie’s choice could’ve been the Trust Falls! Or something else traditional such as icebreakers, blindfolds or egg drops(perhaps the egg bois could’ve helped)! Of everyone having the most conventional ideas. I can absolutely see her want to do a karaoke night too if not for this but some point with them🎤 I could also see her or Vaggie suggest an escape room!

Vaggie could’ve still wanted to do something like the Doomsday District fight. Many pointed out the two side arguments(it did work in the show, they can’t normally die but on the other hand it’s still pretty dangerous, probably something that’d get you in legal trouble🤣). Maybe it could’ve cut To Vaggie initially wanting to do it before Charlie suggests something a tad less hectic. Cue them fighting via paint ball or Laster-Tag! Remeber that family guy paintball scene🤣

Angel Dust’s choice could’ve still been the BDSM club, or perhaps something like hitting up a LGBTQ/Drag Bar or even do makeovers with each other 💄💇🏽‍♀️👗👔 maybe Angel could’ve suggested a BDSM theme escape room. If Al was part of it I think he’d just break the wall to escape🤣

Niffty could’ve suggested something involving arts n crafts or perhaps have the gang help her with something involving pest control in the hotel🪳🪳🪳

Husk could’ve suggested going to a casino horse racing. Trusting the gang to pick out the best horse to put money on because his all choices were crap🤣🐎🏇💰

Sir Pentious-Perhaps would suggest a sorta workshop thing lie, trying to make a new weapon-new furniture together 🛠️🪚🪑 maybe like how they tried to put together that shelf in Sonic Boom🤣

If Al had stuck around, maybe he’d suggest deer hunting or perhaps even cooking(Al-We don’t need to get rid of the egg bois entirely, just keep the numbers small enough, I’d love to help) 🍳🦌.

Alastor-This is my mother’s recipe for eggs sardou(Louisiana Creole egg dish)! With just one change to the type of eggs.

On an unrelated note, I think instead of initially trying to get rid of the egg bois(Charlie & Angel have are allowed to have pets), they just want to limit the number of egg bois around so they can’t cause as much trouble. Imagine a montage of the various ways they die throughout the exercises🤣🍳 kill two birds with one stone.

In general, I think it would’ve been better if Charlie & Vaggie actually had a proper sit down & plan out with each other and/or with them on what to actually do for the trust thing rather than rush right into it with just the trust falls & putting it soon on Vaggie to lead(I kinda came up with a deeper reason of why Charlie decided to do that). That whole ep was def a trust exercise more for Chaggie, about them needing to communicate to each other better & learn to understand each other, think of what the others actually feeling/thinking & being honest/there for each other. I wished we had gotten to see more of the trust between the gang build up too, along with Chaggie. Or perhaps have it focused on the gang first & have the Chaggie stuff focused for another moment.

I def would’ve wanted something like this for 🌈 My Hazbins 🌈 that or they each split into pairs of the people that distrust/dislike each other the most or have the whole thing be an escape room thing. My Baxter would probably suggest something like a pairing dissection thing(def would’ve something very not legal like real life surgery game🤣🤣🤣)

What do u think? Anything u think they could’ve done for the trust exercises? I’d love to know💖

The number of people I have seen talking about how millie cheated is so worrying 😟

Like, guys, Millie characteristic (for the longest time) is that she loves her husband

Why in the world would she cheat?

She probably stressed/worried for 2 reasons

● Imp won't let her do her job now since she pregnant

Since it is stressful and dangerous, the 2 biggest things you should avoid being pregnant

(And I realized while typing this that the writers are going to have stolas take over her job and work with imp in the human world)

● plus, it clearly implied that Millie and moxxie never talked about the idea of having kids. Or they did, but they planned to have kids more in the future

So it got Millie stressful on what moxxie reaction will be and what their life will look now with baby in it

We all know the "everyone loves Merlin" and "everyone ships merthur" trope almost always work together...

Now imagine... The people love Merlin but don't think Prince Arthur, or Prince pratt, as they call him behind his back since Merlin started it, deserves him.

They do notice that Arthur is fond of Merlin... But to have the prince seduce their favorite servant? Have him hold his power over the poor manservant with twice the jobs he should normally have?

Hell no.

Give me protective Camelot. Give me Camelot citizens who constantly try to cockblock Arthur on purpose.

Also, jealous Arthur, as a treat.

Golden Age King Arthur accidentally gets sent back in time to the beginning of his reign. While making his way to Camelot hoping to find Merlin and figure out how to get back to his own time he runs into Agravaine making his own way to Camelot for the first time. Knowing he was a traitor working for Morgana in his own timeline, Arthur kills him and decides to take his place. No one had seen Agravaine since Ygraine's death, there were no portraits of him in the castle, and Arthur's premature greying hair has to be good for something other than Merlin calling him a silver fox. He can pass as his own uncle and be the caring advisor that young him deserved damn it!

Headcanon (4)

The reason that Sir Gwaine and Sir Lancelot never truly became friends is that Gwaine had always been and would always be extremely jealous of Lancelot.

Because he just knew that there was something between Lancelot and Merlin that he didn’t know about and that he couldn’t truly grasp even if he tried to. And he knew that there was something that Merlin was keeping from him and apparently Merlin had decided to tell Lancelot of all people.

Perfect, stupidly honorable Lancelot.

And yes, maybe Gwaine was a little bit too possessive sometimes, but Merlin was his first friend and his best friend and he surely wouldn’t lose him! Not to Sir Lancelot!

MY REVIEW OF HAZBIN HOTEL EP 1!

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First thing off, I hate how the show just expects you to watch the pilot. Like the show feels like it made for viv fans who have been here from day one. Which is absolutely fine!

The thing is, the newer fans shouldn't have to feel stressed or overwhelmed trying to find out why episode 1 of hazbin Hotel didn't feel like episode 1! For example, if i got a doller for the number of people I saw post about the confusion they were feeling, I would probably be a millionaire.

So sadly, hazbin just feels like a show you have to do homework before watching it to find out what you are watching.

Okay, sorry for my rant 😅

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Summary of the episode:

Charlie gets a call from her dad to attend a meeting with the angels in his place. She does so, and we get to meet the two antagonists of the season, Adam and Lute. In the second plot of the episode, we follow Vaggie as she tries to flim a commercial of the hotel to surprise Charlie with.

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My issues with the episode short formed:

● Bad pacing

● some thing should've been kept secret for another episode to explore it further

● And it being episode 1, but instead, it was treated as episode 2 because the writers expected you to watch the pilot

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My issues with the episode long formed:

● the episode was doing too much for a 20-minute episode. It felt like it was trying to keep itself in a standard 2 plot episode but the writers got super excited for plot A (charlie part) that they try to speed up plot B (vaggie and the hotel crew part) to get back to plot A as soon as possible or they didn't understand how to go about the two parts without it becoming to boring for the fans watching.

● Some things should have been kept a secret. And which I mean, some of the things we introduced in episode 1 should've had it own episodes dedicated for that plot.

I would have it that charlie enters the meeting doors. We never see her again until the end of the episode. The rest of the episode just focuses on vaggie, the hotel, and the disaster they are causing to make the commercial. Then, after the last couple minutes of the episode have charlie walked in defeat and crash. Vaggie asks what is wrong and tries to comfort charlie, but Charlie's stays quiet on what happened during the meeting and instead goes to her room. And vaggie left there defeated as she held the camera that has the commercial everyone worked together to make.

● as I said in the beginning, this show is quite all over the place. For you truly know what is going on, you have to go on youtube, watch the pilot, then go back to Prime and watch the rest of the episodes.

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music for this episode:

I loved hell was forever! Like, I genuinely loved it so much!!!!!! If I choose a song to listen to again for the first time from Hazbin Hotel, I would choose hell was forever!

Happy day in hell, I'm sorry, but the song was okay. I didn't enjoy it that much, and if I were to rate the songs. This song would probably be one of the lasts. It just something about the song that just felt off about it.

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Overall, I give this episode a 5.4/10! I would love what else people have to say as well!