no but the fact that we literally have a dialogue with Kaz telling them one of the mistakes a man could ever make is patting his pockets, alerting every thief 'round the corner where he keeps his precious and then INEJ GETS KIDNAPPED THE SAME WAY, WITH KAZ LOOKING AT HER. KAZ IS THE MAN, INEJ THE PRECIOUS AND VAN ECK THE THIEF.

You know what baffles me? Why did we never get a time-loop episode of Merlin? Like someone curses Camelot to be trapped in the same day and Merlin is the only one to retain memories between resets. It would be hilarious to see Merlin just go feral and use magic with wild abandon in the open cause no one will remember anyway. I wanna see him do the bit where he needs to convince Gauis that they are in a time-loop by telling him all the weird and improbable thing that will happen as they are happening. Like it would also be the perfect way to get in multiple "magic reveals" ™. Arthur could sometimes take it well or sometimes even react poorly with the promise of deciding Merlin's fate the next morning but that morning never comes so we never get a for sure answer about how he feels which is why Merlin still doesn't do a reveal post time-loop escape. Like the comedy and drama potential we missed out on man...

The fandom focuses so much on Matthias’s character development in terms of how he views Nina and yeah that’s fair, but pretty much NOBODY ever touches Matthias’s views on the other crows in soc vs ck so i will cuz my guy’s relationship with Kaz goes from demjin (accusatory) to demjin (affectionate), he goes from glaring at Wylan in every interaction to thinking of Wylan as brilliant and an equal, he goes from trying to knock Inej into the water to telling her she is the reason he is still alive and being determined to save her from van eck, he goes from ignoring Jesper to all but clocking Jesper’s entire personality, and in this essay i will

bitches love me for my deeply tragic yearning concealed with boyish mischief

girls r like "but he's my comfort character" and then it's literally the most emotionally traumatized man you have ever seen ever

merlin is a rare example of a classical hero who has a negative character arc, wherein instead of experiencing positive growth and development, the character's life takes a turn for the worse over the course of the story, often resulting in disillusionment with life or corruption of goodness. merlin's trauma over losing those he loves, keeping an extremely dangerous secret for a decade and feeling constrained by "fate," all of which result in his decision in the disir to let mordred die as well as other morally dubious choices he makes throughout the final season, make him a unique fulfillment of the negative character arc. in this essay i will