#1x06 The Cure

[elialys]

ANNA TORV as Olivia Dunham (Fringe) | 1.06 The Cure

#Olivia Dunham #Anna Torv #fringeedit #fringe #the way some critics described anna's acting as WOODEN in early s1 though #the blasphemy #the disrespect #like in that scene in the 3rd gif she's so mad her eyes are WATERY #haters to the left #let's be honest this series of gifs is just me giffing all of olivia's facial expressions #and i will not apologize for it #1x06 The Cure #gifs* #olivia gifs*

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MerlinRewatch2023 -> "A Remedy To Cure All Ills" Paradise Lost ~ Masterlist [Prev <- • -> Next]

#merlinwatch2023 #viruscreates #bbc merlin #edwin muirden #bbc merlin edit #edit #bbc merlin 1x06 #a remedy to cure all ills #paradise lost #guess who forgot was doing this rewatch 🫠 #its fine its fine i can play catch up #this one was fun to make i love this episode so much #also for the thought that death to be a cure for all the magic users in the show because thats the only way out of what uther has done? #just ksbdjdjdjdjjdd I'm occasionally impressed with myself a good old pat on the back to me XD #please click for better quality #tumblr is killing my quality here

[godmerlin]

Colin Morgan as Merlin

1x06 A Remedy To Cure All Ills

#bbc merlin #merlin #colin morgan #merlinedit #merlingifs #my gifs #slowly working my way through the series......... #2nd to last gif i am not happy with but whatever

[merlin-gifs]

MERLIN | 1x06 “A Remedy to Cure All Ills”

#merlinedit #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #bbcemrys #season 1 #1x06 #tvedit #perioddramaedit #* #alice

[adhd-merlin]

A Remedy to Cure All Ills (1x06) // The Sins of the Father (2x08)

#absolutely sickening. #parallels and themes #merlin #ep 1x06 #ep 2x08

[glamaphonic]

towl 1x06 spoilers

and lemme just say also re: the crm

lol forever at these mofos being an apocalypse cult when the apocalypse done already happened

really out there "like no but see ANOTHER apocalypse is totally going to happen so fascism, authoritarianism, and infinite war crimes are the only answer!!"

as i've said previously there are going to be so many people mad that the echelon briefing wasn't some incredible reveal about The Cure or how they totally HAVE to kill everyone bcs only the next generation can ever be immune or smth smth walker variants

and that this wasn't all leading to some big war between the crm and the other communities and beale being the big bad etc

and it's like

not only did you all miss this being a love story

but somehow you managed to miss the extremely clear narrative of this show telling you over and over again that the crm command are fucking fascists!!! you're still out here looking for them to have Good Justified Reason and are mad when fascism is just fascism! grow up!

few things have been as satisfying as rick immediately being ready to fucking murder beale's ass the moment he started spouting that bullshit

#talmbout #richonne #the ones who live

[last-lane-of-liv]

Rewatching the scene in 1x06 where Joel asks Tommy to take Ellie and I just ... can you imagine if Tommy had taken Ellie all the way to the Fireflies?? Tommy wouldn’t have saved her, wouldn’t have even known to ask if Ellie was going to survive, and he would have had to return to Jackson, to Joel, without Ellie. Can you imagine the look on Joel’s face as Tommy rides in without her? Can you imagine Tommy breaking as he tells Joel that Ellie had to die for them to make the cure? Can you imagine if it didn’t even work and Ellie died for nothing??

Just straight torturing myself rn 

#tlou #the last of us #joel and ellie #ellie and joel #joel miller #ellie williams #the last of us hbo #tlou hbo #olivia talks

[princeescaluswords]

Uninteresting

So, yesterday, I encountered a story (at that point it was untagged, and to give the author their due, they tagged it afterwards), and the thing that jumped off the page to me is that they have Scott purposefully luring the Argents to the police station in Fury (2x10). This was a new one on me, so I wondered if the author had just missed the part where Matt had taken Scott's (and the sheriff's and Stiles's) phone and that Allison had correctly identified that Scott wouldn't have done that. I pointed this out.

The author replied that they were tweaking canon because they thought it would be interesting to see Stiles and Scott have a 'discussion' about it.

What they also thought would be interesting would be repeating every big idea that the Anti-Scott parts of fandom have ever had. Scott told Derek his family deserved to be burned alive! (He didn't say that). Scott didn't ask Stiles about his injuries in Master Plan! Scott was obsessed with Allison! Scott neglected Stiles for Isaac!

Such a variation on Teen Wolf might actually be interesting to me as an alternative, too, if I hadn't read it 15,000 times before (not an exaggeration). One of fanfiction's purposes is to give us alternatives to canon, but the trouble is when it comes to Teen Wolf, it's always the same alternatives. I pointed out that as a Scott fan who reads Sterek, it bothers me that they always try to justify the relationship by making Scott the bad guy.

They replied that they tweak canon in a lot of ways, not just to make Scott a bad guy. And they're right. Beyond that ...

They tweaked canon to make Deaton an Evil Sinister Black Man! So unique! He is plotting against Derek with Scott because he thinks Derek should die and Scott should be alpha. Unspoken is why he didn't straight up murder Derek after Peter's resurrection or still supply him with ketamine for the plan to stop Jackson, but if Evil Deaton had been competent, there wouldn't be much of a story would there?

They tweaked canon to make Stiles -- you guessed it -- a Spark! Ground-breaking, like florals in spring! And Deaton was lying to Stiles about the strength of it because Stiles is going to become Derek's Emissary! Because of course he would!

They tweaked canon so Derek is super angry about Scott's remark about the Argents having a reason to attack his family in Magic Bullet (1x04), but doesn't even remember that Stiles directly accused him of murdering his sister out of jealousy of the full wolf form in Second Chance at First Line (1x02).

They tweaked canon so Derek can't trust Deaton because the veterinarian is plotting against him for some unknown reason, and it's definitely not because Derek kidnapped and almost killed him in Heart Monitor (1x06).

They tweaked canon so that Stiles obviously did care after Scott was poisoned with wolf's bane by Victoria, even though we didn't see any of that on the screen but assumed that it happened, just like we should have assumed Scott asked Stiles about what happened in the Argent basement.

They tweaked canon so that Stiles never wanted Derek dead and that he can't believe Scott would be so, so cruel to widdle-baby Derek, who didn't lie to Scott about the cure or break into his house and threaten to kill him or did nothing at all ever to earn Scott's distrust.

I could go on. In other words, to them it's interesting to rehash every single Sterek Trope that has been written in meta and stories so often that it's become accepted reality. They "tweak" canon in only certain pre-set ways and always to the same ends. Because I do believe in alternative stories, I would accept this if, for every Sterek story where Scott is a Bad Lying Friend and Unworthy of Stiles's regard, so he turns to Derek, there's a Sterek story with different "tweaks," such as where Isaac tries to kill Stiles to get Scott to join the pack or Scott rejects Stiles because he's too mean to Derek which makes Stiles see the error of his ways. But there isn't. And that, of course, is my point.

It's the Big Lie. Everyone complains about discourse and why people would waste time arguing over trivial matters such as these, but ten years have passed and now I encounter multiple people entering the fandom who literally believe that Scott was OBSESSED over Allison, that he didn't put her to the side to save Derek and/or his pack on multiple occasions and that she was his necessary anchor. Who believe that Stiles was neglected and treated badly, not by the guy who bounced his head off a steering wheel or tried to kill the girl he loved or sent one of his betas to kidnap him, but by his best friend who literally ripped a locker door of his hinges in an attempt to find him. Sterek has become synonymous with Scott is a Bad Friend, and I dare people to argue that it hasn't.

And thus, a non-white heroic protagonist has been transformed, probably forever, into an unworthy inadequate simpleton who treated his mega-genius best friend and a (phenomenally rich, good-looking, and well-loved) orphan werewolf so badly. It's happened. Right in front of the fandom's eyes. And lots of people are happy about it for some reason.

BUT IT'S NOT RACISM.

#scott mccall defense squad #teen wolf fandom problems #teen wolf fanfiction #fandom racism

[fexalted]

watching tos for the first time since like, roughly 2012/13-ish? i don't remember what year it was, or why i only got thru most of season 1 before stopping

it's been fun to refresh my swiss cheesed memory with this tho so here's a semi-liveblog of the first 10 eps that i watched over the past couple weeks

1x01 - the man trap

things i remembered beforehand:

salt monster

"plum" uwu

that gay little run and crawl jim does when he's taking cover (it fills me with such delight)

things i did not remember:

how many people died, good god man it's only the first episode

1x02 - charlie x

things i remembered:

jim's bright red exercise pants

that stupid fucking face charlie makes when he uses his powers

not liking this ep at all when i first watched it, possibly due to me being around the same age as charlie at the time

additional thoughts: i enjoyed it more this time and felt more sympathetic for charlie. poor kid needed some parents, and also, like, a hug

1x03 - where no man has gone before

things i remembered:

bones isn't in it :'( (bored) (sad) (missing my bestie)

"James R Kirk"

that post i saw on here recently about how their contacts were made of glass

the only thing i could think about while watching:

their contacts

were made

of GLASS

(yes i understand this was how contacts were made back then. still freaked out by the concept of people putting glass in their eyes on purpose)

1x04 - the naked time

things i remembered:

sweat disease

sulu fencing

oh kathleen

"ONE-MORE-TIME!!"

"love mankind"

spock breakdown (extremely uncomfortable to watch)

bones casually ripping jim's shirt sleeve to jab him in the arm (extremely hilarious every time i think about it)

did not remember:

anything about them almost crashing into a planet lol

jim's little monologue when he gets infected (lmao)

time warp???

additional thoughts: hey remember when they reused this plot in tng and tasha and data fucked (<- literally the only thing i can remember about it) ((edit from future fex: i rewatched that ep. it was wild. tos did it better tho))

1x05 - the enemy within

things i remembered:

unicorn dog :)

evil kirk and poor little meow meow kirk

"I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!"

things not remembered:

dog dies :(

evil kirk's killer eyeliner

additional thoughts: say what you will about shatner / his acting but this ep is Peak shatner performance and a lot of fun to watch. he put his whole pussy into it, as the kids say these days

1x06 - mudd's women

things remembered:

could not forget harry mudd if i tried

the women are color coded like the powerpuff girls lol

they're also like, on some kind of drug that keeps them looking young or something

cool costumes tho

i don't have much to say about this one lol, harry's a fun character but the rest of the ep wasn't super interesting to me. did finally learn how to pronounce "ophiuchus" tho so i'll thank it for that

1x07 - what are little girls made of

things remembered:

is this the penis rock episode (it is)

uhhh i think kirk gets put into some kind of spinny machine that makes androids (he does)

more cool costumes (debatable)

things i find funny:

the number of planets we've encountered so far that are populated by like. 2-4 people

the way ruk (the big guy) just picks up and throws kirk like he weighs nothing

so much buildup with kirk and the penis rock and he doesn't even get to hit ruk over the head with it smh

also not a funny moment but i liked the way kirk was able to get a message to spock thru the android kirk, v clever

wait i just realized bones wasn't in this ep either. deducting 1/4 of a star from my mental rating bc i missed him (but apparently not that much)

1x08 - miri

remembered:

planet of children (bc everyone else died of terminal puberty)

"no blah blah blah!"

bones tests his newly discovered, untested cure on himself, in true mad scientist fashion (also spones moment <3)

saw this ep on a "what's your fave 'bad' episode" poll here recently and i can't remember if i thought it was good or bad when i first watched it lol

forgot:

another earth?? there's just a second, identical earth floating around out there?? and (of course) they don't mention it at all for the rest of the episode

300 year old children

oh these kids are so much more annoying than i remembered, however i may just be biased bc i don't like kids shfkshfk

1x09 - dagger of the mind

remember:

absolutely nothing! oh boy!

thoughts:

wow this ep is fucked up!

okay actually i don't think i've seen this one at all before?

usually there'll be moments that jog my memory but the only thing even slightly familiar to me was kirk going "helen don't go!" while in the neutralizer chair, but i could've just seen a clip/gif of it before

i remember skipping episodes in season 1 (i was impatient and wanted to get to city on the edge of forever) but i thought i'd at least made it to halfway thru the season before skipping any

anyway did i mention this ep is fucked up? (star trek really does love to drop an absolutely haunting 50 minutes of television on you and then never address it again, i understand this now. roll credits!)

1x10 - the corbomite maneuver

remember:

uhh

there's a thing out there

it's in the way

preventing them from boldly going, even

looks like an old windows screensaver

i might've skipped this ep too now that i think about it

thoughts:

cute mckirk moment in sickbay :3

i love that this cube has its own theme music whenever its on screen

oh shit it's the sequel to cube: orb

jesus christ that's a big orb

man they really said "okay we've got 3 music tracks and we're gonna get our money's worth out of them"

i gotta say this ep slaps tbh—WAIT HE'S A BABY???

LITTLE BABY MAN

LMAOOOOO

honestly great episode tho i'll stand by that

#fex text #i'm having fun :3

[toshsato]

MERLIN Rewatch: 1x06 A REMEDY TO CURE ALL ILLS

Gaius has treated me since before I can remember. You can't cast him out.

#merlin #morgana pendragon #katie mcgrath #katiemcgrathedit #bbcm #cinematv #cinemapix #userstream #perioddramaedit #filmtvcentral #filmtvdaily #usertelevision #perioddramasource #tvfilmsource #tvcentric #merlinedit #usertvfilm #smallscreensource #merlingifs #weloveperioddrama #1x06 #merlin rewatch #one gifset per ep #a remedy to cure all ills #mygifs #my post

[mariatesstruther]

man man man imagine like, still!outbreak AU tommy finds ellie outside jackson needing safety, his dad mode wakes 100% and he brings her inside jackson to live with him and maria cause he always imagined having a daughter with maria🥺

OKAY YES ANON YES YES. BUT ALSO YES AND

maybe an au where marlene KEPT ellie with her????? where she was raised among the fireflies???? maybe marlene told her she was the daughter of her best friend, a fellow rebel that got killed, but never that her mom was bit?????? so ellie doesn’t know she’s immune, and she’s sort of raised as marlene’s goddaughter with other children of firefly rebels

and maybe marlene tells herself that ellie’s immunity will eventually save them all, that she has to keep her safe, that she has to keep her alive and away from fucking everything long enough for them to figure out a cure. she doesn’t know or even suspect that it would take killing ellie to get their way—by the time they do figure it out, ellie’s like a daughter to her. she’s watched this kid grow up to hate tuna like anna and laugh like anna and love terrible puns, just like anna. before marlene’s eyes, ellie turns into anna’s mini-me without even knowing it; so what else is she to do but grow to love her too? that’s anna’s baby, anna and marlene’s baby. she loves her more than the world, more than the anything, more than the fireflies. more than a cure

so maybe when marlene finds out what abby’s dad has planned, she makes a different choice. she tells ellie the truth, that she’s sorry, and that she needs to go. ellie (who is blessedly not burdened by survivors guilt from riley and company) wants to live, of course she does. even if she hadn’t, marlene wouldn’t have let her die. she couldn’t

instead, she finds the most trustworthy yet capable and dangerous man she knows: tommy miller. what she hears of him is plenty, but what she knows for sure is this: he’s a great soldier, he’s a good man, and he used to have a neice named sarah. him and ellie already get along, luckily, because he teaches math to the firefly kids a few times a week. she tells him what is planned, and he’s horrified. she tells him how to stop it, so he does (kills a few people along the way, which she covers for. theyre good.)

then at this point, i actually think it’d be fun if joel and tess run into tommy and ellie somewhere random in the woods of wyoming 😭😭😭 maybe when joel and tess break into that old couple’s house from 1x06 and he asks if they’ve heard of a tommy, they actually go “you know what… some guy named tommy was here with a twelve year old not even two hours ago. little one cusses like a sailor. they went that way.”

im tagging in a-level marlene appreciator @clickergossip bc i want her to see this. anon thank u so much.

#ooooo im COOKING tn #firefly ellie au #i LOVE THE IDEA OF MATH TUTOR TOMMYYYYYYY #him and ellie bonding over both thinking math is stupid and tedious but being lowkey good at it #i need a spreadsheet for my au tags at this point #to the other anon that also just dropped a GOLDMINE au in my lap #IT IS COMING #LIKE U DONT KNOW WHAT U JUST DID HOMIE #i hope u liked this anon this is a FUN idea #fic writers pls steal this yall would make something great #tlou #the tipsy bison #tlou au #asked and answered #tommy x ellie #tommy miller #tlou marlene #the millers #marlene x anna #tlou anna #anna williams #the tispy bison

[bbcmerlinbracket]

Episode descriptions under the cut (contains spoilers).

1x06 A Remedy To Cure All Ills

A sorcerer with murderous intentions takes over Gaius’s position as court healer after curing an illness he caused, and Gaius and Merlin have to step in to save Uther’s life.

1x13 Le Morte D’Arthur

Arthur gets bitten by the Questing Beast and Merlin travels to the Isle of the Blessed to negotiate a cure from Nimueh, but in order to save a life, another life must be taken.

2x06 Beauty And The Beast Part 2

Everyone knows that Uther’s married to a troll…except Uther, who is utterly besotted with his new, stinky wife. Merlin and Gaius stage Arthur’s death to break the enchantment.

3x10 Queen Of Hearts

Morgana sees visions of Gwen becoming queen of Camelot and does her best to break up Arthur and Gwen. When that doesn’t work, she frames Gwen as a witch and Merlin uses an aging spell to become elderly wizard Dragoon and save her.

4x12 The Sword In The Stone Part 1

Morgana and the Southron army attack and capture Camelot, forcing everyone to go on the run.

#bbc merlin #merlin #merlin show #polls #tumblr bracket #merlin emrys #gwen merlin #arthur pendragon #uther pendragon #gaius merlin #knights of the round table #morgana #dragoon #merthur

[wibble-wobbegong]

Holly’s Diner in 1x06 “The Cure”

#fringe notes #fringe 1x06

[merlin-gifs]

MERLIN | 1x06 “A Remedy to Cure All Ills”

#merlinedit #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #morgwen #morgana x gwen #morgana #morgana pendragon #guinevere #guinevere pendragon #gwen pendragon #season 1 #1x06 #tvedit #perioddramaedit #* #abbie

[adhd-merlin]

A Remedy to Cure All Ills, 1x06

#coincidence? i think not #there are a few instances of characters saying “i have no choice” in the series actually #unsurprisingly. given it's also a series about the inescapability of fate. but this is in the same episode #also i am thinking about merlin saying “i have no choice” about letting mordred escape with kara #because he very much did have a choice but risking arthur's life wasn't an option #and merlin's loyalty to arthur in S5 very much mirrors gaius's loyalty to uther #and they are both a bit fucked up. gaius's more so of course #but i like to think it was a frog in a boiling pot situation #because uther didn't start out as a child-drowning tyrant surely #and like. what happened. #i'm intrigued by gaius and uther's relationship #toxic codependency #ep 1x06

[tiodolma]

I've always thought the prophecy was about both striking a balance. Merlin was meant to keep Morgana in check and Morgana was meant to keep Merlin in check.

Me too. Even Alice Troughton in the dvd commentary with Colin Morgan for s4 admitted that love/hate were always coexisted with each other.

Morgana certainly had the power and the invincibility for it, to keep Merlin in check, to draw him out, to make him face his dark and human side, to make him face his wrongs his sins and his victories.

Unfortunately Morgana didn't have the information he had. Merlin had all the information and he used that against everyone. Moreover her magic matured too late (with respect to Merlin's).

I think the real tragedy of Merlin's life was that he was already conditioned to kill from the very start (ep 1x06 Remedy To Cure All Ills ironic title ngl). That episode alone started it all. He was so so new and naive to everything and in that episode he showed absolutely no remorse at "accidentally" killing someone who offered him guidance and knowledge (at the expense of gaius).

And look I get it, he panicked. But after that he never wondered why Edwin was so so righteously angry at Gaius. Remember, Gaius sold Edwin's parents out to Uther and let young Edwin escape. Edwin's gravitas was so justified, you know? Merlin never tried to learn about the things Gaius did to protect "others" and most importantly to protect himself and his position. Even if Gaius thought black magic was evil, he still threw others under the bus for fighting for their lives. He still left Edwin (and Merlin) an orphan.

How does this relate with Morgana? You see from that point on, from episode 1x06 up to "2x03 The Nightmare Begins" Merlin has already killed at least seven people, most of them magic users.

Edwin,

Mary Collins (indirectly but him thwarting her plan zapped her of all energy),

Aulfric,

Sophia,

The Black Knight (who had a reason for it's anger),

Tauren's goons,

Nimueh

Sigan

Hengrist's goon's

plus he almost choose to get Mordred killed... 2 times.

He knew the reasons most of these had, but they didn't matter to him, he was never allowed to properly emphathise with them (Gaius taught him very very very well). Because his orders were always to "eliminate the threat" "kill them" for the sake of his destiny.

As Morgana's magic truly manifested in S2, Merlin was already too far gone and too far deep in the liar and vigilante game. Merlin was continuously performing treasonous and unlawful tasks UNCHECKED for two years! TWO YEARS!

TWO YEARS OF "JUSTIFIED IN HIS OWN HEAD" HOMICIDE AND MURDER WITH NO REAL REPERCUSSIONS.

And also I get why they had resorted to that kind of actions. One of the definitions of extremism from wikipedia said:

In addition, extreme acts are more likely to be employed by marginalized people and groups who view more normative forms of conflict engagement as blocked for them or biased.

That kind of radicalization and extremist training by both Gaius and Kilgharrah was effective as hell.

Morgana only started the proper coups at around mid-s2. She hasn't truly killed anyone for magic yet (aside from Tauren in S1). Even in Fires of Idirsholas she felt guilty of accidentally collaborating with Morgause.

It took 1 year of isolated training away from everyone for Morgana to be fully radicalized, forged in the fires of extremism herself. Even then, even in 3x01 and 3.02 when she killed one guard and she actively helped set in motion Morgause's terrorist attack, she still was willing to hear Merlin out in the crypts. She even laid out all her cards, showed her strengths and vulnerabilities for him to see and judge. Morgana still choose to be diplomatic despite it all.

What Morgana didn't know was that she wasn't dealing with a proper negotiator, she was dealing with a vigilante and secret agent who has three years worth of (1)all the vital information, (2)unchallenged power, (3)unchecked morals, (4)numerous kills, (5)experience in deception and (6)extremist conditioning. And the worse part was that the person who she thought was her friend, Merlin, even with everything he had, genuinely believed he had nothing to offer in exchange for her peace.

I think that's the tragedy of it.

With her truly coming into her full power only at s4, Morgana was too late to have a chance to inspire change in Merlin as a proper equal to him. Merlin has been in that overpowered and unchallenged state for 5 years at most. And by the time Morgana had become truly confident in s4, both of them had gone in the farthest ends of the extremes of their idealogies.

Merlin knew everything about her. But Morgana lacked the most important piece of information, the identity of Emrys.

No one could keep Merlin in check in the proper diplomatic manner anymore.

They have to come to arms.

#mergana #merlin critical #bbc merlin #bbc morgana #wars of truth and privilege who would win #otp: secret service x insurgent #otp: there is no other way #failure of negotiations #merlin meta #merlin essays