Ninja Penguins

Started this one with dinner again, so we're most of the way through. A few notes:

It's never occurred to me before, but why did Arthur shoot the unicorn. It's horse shaped. Why not... Try to tame it and ride it into battle? I can't imagine they often hunt horses. Although... Horse meat, I suppose. But the kudos of being the prince who rides a unicorn would surely be immense. Like, this boy is dumb.

Second, Anhora's teleporting is such an extra thing to do. Like he will not finish a sentence without randomly blinking over to somewhere else. It's giving batman villain in the best way.

Third, you're telling me Merlin - who grew up in Ealdor, a farmer entirely dependent on the weather and the land - has never had to eat rat before? Really? That boy has eaten rat. Or if he hasn't, he understands completely that when you're hungry you eat whatever the fuck you have to.

Oh look, it's the hedge maze from the books/films we don't talk about. The music is really putting in the work here to make running past foliage ✨dramatic✨. Those evil, evil hedges.

Possibly Arthur's best moment in the entire show with that goblet. "You know me, Merlin: I never listen to you." A+ No notes. Give that man a crown. Just yes. This is the Arthur we want. This is the Arthur we believe in.

I watched most of this while eating dinner, so we're already at the battle.

But dammit are they magic-revealbaiting with this one. AND queerbaiting. It's fascinating really. Did they already know at this point that the magic wouldn't be revealed until the last ever episode? Did they realise how gay it would seem?

I have so far counted like 6 moments at which Arthur could have learnt about Merlin's magic.

Also, Will, I love you. You also deserved better. Excellent rugby tackle of a man off a horse. Which: the BBC got so many horses for this episode. I've counted 6 in one shot. That's the entire budget gone.

Also, why a tornado, Merlin? There were far better ways to do it. Tornado is going to hurt everyone. You have telekinesis. Your magic is pretty much anything you want it to be.

Will. Best boy. Merlin, idiot. Could have stopped that arrow.

Also Will's accent is the same as Andrew Lee Potts, aka Hatter from Syfy's Alice, so that adds extra love from me. I rewatched the other day. Such Amazing Nonsense.

Arthur: "you shouldn't have kept this from me".

And what would you have done? That's his best friend. You can't just say that and not offer an assurance that you wouldn't have done anything.

Aww, Hunith.

"When the time is right, the truth will be known." You mean when Arthur's dying? Is that when you mean, Hunith? Is that when you mean?

Which is all to say that if I'd just used the other attachment on the airbed pump, my arse wouldn't have been practically on the floor for the last four nights and I wouldn't have pissed off my neighbours by spending approximately three hours trying desperately to use the loudest pump in the goddam world to blow it up and wondering why it wasn't getting firmer.

Goddammit.