What I took away from the Merlin finale?

That there has never been a greater love than Merlin's for Arthur. ( Spoilers! )

Nobody will ever convince me that these two were just friends, not after this.

I need to watch it again but I'm crying so hard I have actually trouble breathing. I can't remember the last time something affected me that much.

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This morning, I woke up dry-eyed and headachy from all the crying I did last night. Like, seriously, I know that it's just a TV show but for 5 years, I have lived with these characters, I have laughed and cried with them, cheered and rooted for them. An ending is always sad, saying good-bye to characters you got to love and hold dear, but this one was exceptionally sad and full of desperate inevitability. I wish they had ended it on a hopeful note at least...

( Mostly me blubbering about the series finale... )

Now that Merlin's over, I hope Colin Morgan and Bradley James get to work on stuff with more variety. They both have such a perfect comedic timing... yet they get cast in the same parts again and again: Colin as a junkie or whatever in really depressing movies and Bradley as a dumb jock. I think it's really too bad and I hope it'll change now that they will have the time to choose their parts wisely.

The Bourne Legacy

So much better than Skyfall, IMHO. Especially the female characters, Marta first and foremost. Seriously, when I grow up, I want to be like her - a completely normal, intelligent woman who doesn't get all stupid and panicky, who doesn't do dumb things, who saves the hero and not just once but twice, first through her knowledge, then by getting the assassin off their backs and finding them a spot on the fishing boat. What an awesome woman - and an actress whose age is appropriate to the character she's playing! Finally!

And Jeremy Renner as Aaron, the brave hero - yet he also felt like a real woobie the whole movie long. Yes, he kicked the asses of all the bad guys - but I still felt like Marta was protecting him, not the other way around. Like she was the boss. I love it that Jeremy Renner usual plays his parts opposite strong female characters. It's really lovely.

I still don't get what people didn't like about the movie or what they didn't understand. I loved following the connection between Treadstone and Blackbriar to Outcome. So, so sneaky. Loved all the intrigue! Awesome movie.