How the mighty have fallen

Colin Morgan as Michael O’Hara in Dead Shot - Clip #2

[gwaine, percival, and merlin sitting on a bench]

Gwen: Why on earth would you give a knife to a child?!

Merlin Writers: We wanted to make a show about Arthurian legend, packed with compelling, totally heterosexual, characters, with absolutely no undertones of gayness whatsoever, ya know, for the fans

My favorite thing about this is that Merlin is always referencing Arthur’s great destiny and the faith he has in it…but Arthur doesn’t have the knowledge about their destinies like Merlin does. No, every time Merlin brings up their destinies Arthur doesn’t understand it as something Merlin has been told, but rather as something that Merlin believes in - as proof that Merlin believes in him. And Arthur never questions it. Sure, he pokes fun, but you can see him always listening to what Merlin says, always studying the conviction with which Merlin seems to be saying these ideas that Arthur would never be able to vulnerably say about himself.

at first sight -