Simon eating the "poisoned" cake is foreshadowing him realising that the royal family is indeed poisonous. That's why the cake is green - green represents something poisonous, toxic or sickly in Young Royals (and I'll make a new post about colours soon bc I had a huge realisation yesterday). That's why no one ate Wille's birthday cake. It's poison.
Wille turning to Simon and expecting him to be his emotional support because it's the only support he's ever gotten.
Not listening or even seeing Simon is his learnt behaviour, it's his parents' behaviour both towards himand each other.
But he's so young, he can change.
And I think that it's the whole point of Young Royals, that people can change, especially when we're young. It requires facing consequences for our behaviours. It requires owning up to our mistakes. But we can.
Wille is already learning from Simon, of course he'll do the right thing in the end. The resolution was written on his hand in episode 1.
And what a clever phrasing! Resolution, re-solution.
Life is a puzzle, especially when our childhood provides a poor or faulty map to guide us. So we try all the wrong solutions, until we figure out what is right. Then re-solve it right in the end, with our re-solution.
Hahaha but imagine if the very final scene of YR is Simon sitting by himself, back at Marieberg after Hillerska closes. The camera is on him and we see people around him still looking at him and he looks lonely. All of a sudden, someone says, "Can I sit here?" and Simon looks up and there's Wille with that sweet half-smile.
"It's just," Wille adds, "All the other seats are taken."
And Simon starts smiling as well. "Wille," he says. "This seat's always going to be yours."
The difference between Uther and Gaius / Arthur and Merlin is that uther didn't accept gaius completely. Their loyalty to each other was based on uther's condition that you must leave magic, which it was a big part of gaius's life, so it was like leaving a part of himself and all his memories for Uther and guarantee for his life, as for Arthur he didn't care at all about Merlin having magic, than that Merlin didn't trust him enough to tell him, and what Arthur did ? he told him that he didn't want him to change and accepted him completely and without conditions
Can we talk about this scene, because it made my heart drop when we first heard it. It was yet another, probably one of the most extreme, indicators of how Simon's mental health was declining alarmingly throughout this season. Simon saying he doesn't want to be anywhere made me so scared for him. He's NEVER expressed this kind of anguish, at least not out loud, it's not in his character. And him saying "everyone hates me." This whole scene was one of the most heartbreaking moments of the season.
I have to talk about Simon (and by proxy, Omar's acting) in this scene, which is the CUTEST Wilmon scene we've gotten imo and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. How cat-like, needy, cuddly, and all over his man Simon is after Wille joins the choir. He's just a little kitten...acts of service are definitely his love language, the way he is all over Wille and nuzzling him after Wille joins the choir, this is so ENDEARING. I love them your honor.
Need to talk about how devastating it was to see Simon crying for the first times ever because I have thoughts...I knew as soon as we got the promo shot of Simon crying that this was going to be so painful, it's like watching a child cry.
His character is someone who always keeps his emotions in, and this season he can't anymore. But even then, he tries to reign it in for all these moments, because that's his nature (him furiously wiping those tears away on the bus broke me). Watching someone so full of life and convictions slowly get beat down. And we already know we're gonna see him cry at least once in episode 6 but let's ignore that because I can't take it