The fact we never get a sequence where Merlin is walking through the castle and greeting people, and helping with random small chores, and holding doors open for servants with their hands full, and magicking a fallen teacup fixed and saying “oh look it didn’t break!” With a goofy grin on his face while some brand new servant looks so so so relieved. A crime.
it mustve been fucking magnificent for anyone who knew arthur before/after merlin tripped into camelot. like hmm ok the prince is a bit of a cunt but what do you expect from someone raised by uther, and also he has a fuck ton of responisbility and he hates himself so we can give him a little bit of leeway. and then he gets a new servant and suddenly all the shit arthur directs at everyone is laser focused on one (1) guy who not only takes it, but fires it back at the speed of fucking light. this has literally never happened to arthur before. wtf is he supposed to do. how do you control someone who will make you eat rat stew if you make him do his fucking job. you can’t fire him bc you kinda like that he tells you to eat shit every other day but you also cant just let him do whatever he wants?? i just cant get over what the court must have thought seeing their somewhat dignified prince lose his goddamn mind bellowing after an idiot servant that refuses to go hunting on the basis that he doesnt feel like it
I 100000% believe that at one point Merlin is yelling at Arthur for doing something reckless and idiotic again, and all the knights are sitting at camp, pretending they're not trying to eavesdrop, when they very clearly hear Merlin shouting, "I did not give you permission to die!"
From then on, whenever Arthur starts to do something stupid, invariably one of them will ask, entirely serious, "Did Merlin give you permission to die?"
Which basically translates to, "Don't think I won't tell on you if you insist on being a dumbass."
I just decided Willie, Julie, and Flynn are besties, they are their own group and package deal, I don't accept criticism because this is already perfect
But yeah, now that it's canon that Alex goes and lies down when he gets too anxious, I'm gonna be majorly disappointed if we don't see Reggie and Luke doing something impulsive only to cut to Alex lying on the beach and just muttering "they're so stupid" over and over