Yeah, I agree about the humiliation aspect. Then again, I'm really sensitive in that aspect and also cringed about Merlin pretending searching for woodworms the second time.
Pretty sure there was food in that bowl. Everything else wouldn't have made much sense.
Also, man, that would've been a perfect opportunity for them to remember that Gwaine thinks Merlin's pretty great; shame he was totally generic. This continues to make me die a little inside every week, ngl. Stupid OTP-ish and Gwaine-centric tendencies I have to seem acquired somewhere along the way. I don't want them. Someone take them back please? /whining (Sorry!)
Yeah, I think Merlin's really awkward excuses are common enough that I've developed a bit of an immunity to them, but that sort of thing is still definitely not my favourite.
I think I'm going to choose to believe there was food whether that's what was intended or not, because I just don't want to think that Arthur and the knights think actually depriving Merlin of dinner is funny.
And, yeah, Gwaine. :( I really hope at some point we'll get an episode where he's featured a bit more and gets his personality back, because I really miss the old Gwaine. *hugs*
I'm pretty sure it had food, yeah. The knights seemed way too pleased with themselves and Merlin looked too happy (plus, if it didn't, that would make the knights into a bunch of irredeemable assholes, which I don't think was what they were going for there). I interpreted the grumbling in the second dinner scene as Merlin thinking "oh, not again, let it go, guys
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Yeah, I think there's enough justification for reading it as a full bowl that I'm just going to go with that. You've got a good point that Merlin would likely be kind of annoyed at the repeat gag even if he did eventually get the food.
It does make a certain amount of sense; realistically things aren't going to change overnight, especially since Arthur was effectively running the kingdom already for some time before Uther's death. I think maybe it just seems odd because the whole When Arthur Is King thing has been built up so much as some big turning point. But it does look like the next episode will deal a bit more with that, so maybe they just wanted a bit of a breather in between
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Pretty sure there was food in that bowl. Everything else wouldn't have made much sense.
Also, man, that would've been a perfect opportunity for them to remember that Gwaine thinks Merlin's pretty great; shame he was totally generic.
This continues to make me die a little inside every week, ngl. Stupid OTP-ish and Gwaine-centric tendencies I have to seem acquired somewhere along the way. I don't want them. Someone take them back please?
/whining (Sorry!)
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I think I'm going to choose to believe there was food whether that's what was intended or not, because I just don't want to think that Arthur and the knights think actually depriving Merlin of dinner is funny.
And, yeah, Gwaine. :( I really hope at some point we'll get an episode where he's featured a bit more and gets his personality back, because I really miss the old Gwaine. *hugs*
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It does make a certain amount of sense; realistically things aren't going to change overnight, especially since Arthur was effectively running the kingdom already for some time before Uther's death. I think maybe it just seems odd because the whole When Arthur Is King thing has been built up so much as some big turning point. But it does look like the next episode will deal a bit more with that, so maybe they just wanted a bit of a breather in between ( ... )
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