#who is somehow convincing Chloe to lie to Luci so that we can pad the runtime instead of writing an evolution of their relationship

[andthebeanstalk]

Me seeing art for a show I both hate and thoroughly love to roast: Someone worked really hard on this as an act of love, and I will not reblog their work just to trash the show in their tags. The artist can see the tags. I will not do it. I won't. They're not hurting anyone. I am not going to-- I'm not. I'm not, I'm not going to do it, I am genuinely not going to I'm not--not even if I want to because GODS I want to but I won't I'll just make a separate post about it or something, it's not like everything I love is so perfect anyway, and I sure wouldn't appreciate it, goodness knows so I'm not going to do it EVEN THOUGH MERLIN IS

A STUPID SHOW AND THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT

SHOULD FEEL BAD!!!!

(The people who like it don't have to feel bad. Both because it is genuinely a moral neutral, and also, well, they've already sat through all of BBC Merlin - they've suffered enough!)

#original #merlin #bbc merlin #listen listen listen i have a destiel sideblog i get it #being in the fandom doesn't mean you think the canon is well written! and if you DO think Merlin or Supernatural are well-written... #you are entitled to that opinion and there's nothing morally wrong with having an incorrect opinion! #XD i am hilarious #merlin as a show just makes me really mad as a person who desperately wanted so much from it when i watched it and instead it was.... #well to be frank it is a wildly homophobic show but also it is 6 seasons of blue balls just in terms of satisfying writing #it has so much of what i love in a show and yet it always felt so... flat. and the fact that merlin keeps his magic secret past season 1 #was fucking WILD #it's not like Lucifer where they are locked into the very limiting formula of a cop show #it was A BIG FUCK-OFF FANTASY WORLD WITH A SHITLOAD OF EXISTING MYTHOLOGY #it is Unthinkable to me that they ran out of ideas that quickly!!! #the show centers around two main characters who literally never connect with each other as a result!!!! for six seasons!!! #I mean to be fair Lucifer absolutely only had one idea also and as soon as Chloe finds out he's the devil in like season 4 or whatever #the show immediately reveals that it had ABSOLUTELY no pay-off to that slowburn WHATSOEVER #oh do we get to see the scene where she finds out? just the first five seconds of it before the show introduces a random third character #who is somehow convincing Chloe to lie to Luci so that we can pad the runtime instead of writing an evolution of their relationship #because that would be HARD and what is EASY is IGNORING the only interesting path forward #like YES Merlin did say 'gay people should have defended hitler with their lives' bc again. WILDLY homophobic show #but character-wise it is also like if Aang stayed in the South Pole airbending and being chased by Zuko for 6 seasons #and then he fucking died at the end for no reason. #does he ever learn the other elements? well it's talked about a lot. every episode in fact. but no not until the end of the last episode #right before he dies and then it shows that katara has grown old alone. #anyway i get mad when i see merlin fan art and it isn't fair to the queer artists or fans who make it so i do just make a separate post #and also the Merlin episode of the podcast 'Bait' is SO funny. it is a podcast about queerbaiting. #i hate queerbaiting at this point but it is a good podcast and so funny!!