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Every time I rewatch The Godfather, I LOVE IT EVEN MORE. Augh, I can totaly trace my love of motherfucking Pendragons and motherfucking firebenders to my hearteyesing at the Corleones. The TIES THAT BIND, the sacred bonds of familyyyy, an honor full of hubris (or a hubris full of honor??), and don't turn your back on the family EVER AGAIN omg. Their power is ubiquitous, as generous as it is terrible. Their loyalty is dangerous, and their balance of power complex. NOW IF WE'RE DONE PLANNING MURDERS AND BRIBING FEDERAL JUDGES, I WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND MY DAUGHTER'S WEDDING. MOTHERFUCKING CORLEONES <3333

I have Top Fives.

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fahye: top 5 fictional battles, which was difficult because I'm not a battle scene kind of person, but voila anyway!

1. Hot Fuzz, at the end, because it is HILARIOUS.

2. Prince Caspian, at the end, with awesome surprise!crater.

3. Planet Terror, at the end, because it is also hilarious. Also: ZOMBIES.

4. Uh, then I start to blank out. Did Hero have a battle scene? Kill Bill Vol. 1 at the end was pretty cool. I also like the Gangs of New York one, although this may be because I recently rewatched it.

5. The Warlords

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mrinalinee: top 5 crossovers that I want written, which was difficult because I want crossovers of everything ever. I'm going to treat Merlarnia as a given.

1. Merlin/Avatar. Arthur and Zuko hanging out being noble warrior-princes trying to grow into their kingship, dealing with tyrant fathers and scene-stealing sisters. They learn things about themselves and each other, and have many Moments.

3. Disney/Warnes Bros. Donald and Daffy hanging out, hating on people with big ears, griping about anti-feather prejudice.

2. "Real World: Cryptic Mentor Figures." Yoda, Dumbledore, the dragon, Aslan, Professor X, and the Oracle (and whoever else), all in one house, bickering over whose turn it is to do dishes and who keeps hogging the phone.

4. Johnny Maxwell/Narnia, because Johnny and his gang would be hilariously genre-savvy about it.

5. Captain Planet/RPF. The Planeteers work together with world leaders to better the planet, but navigating the world of international politics is harder than they thought. The multilaterals bully them, human rights groups hassle their environmental conservation plans for not considering the livelihood of peasants, and Greenpeace is just wack, man, totally wack. Ma-Ti wonders if he should use his Heart power to influence politicians.

Bonus 6. X-Men/Captain Planet. Wheeler and John, feisty fireboys together living it up in New York.

top 5 X-Files crossovers, which is QUITE TIMELY as I have been binging myself on X-Files episodes for the past couple of weeks

1. Narnia. Scully tries to come up with a scientific explanation for a forest in a wardrobe, and before she can stop him, Mulder dons a fur coat disappears into the woods. So, she goes too. (MAYBE SAMANTHA IS IN HERE.) Another possibility is Mulder and Scully investigating Susan Pevensie for some reason, maybe something to do with magic boat pictures and wardrobes. Mulder and Susan can have sibling angst together.

2. Merlin. This can be tackled a number of ways. One possibility is reincarnation fic wherein Mulder and Scully investigates a telekinetic/pyrokinetic who claims he is trying to find the once and future king.

3.

bedlamsbard created a post-TLB Narnia 'verse I played around in for a while, wherein Susan is immortal and joins the FBI, then Peter is somehow raised from the dead and also joins the FBI. I would cross the X-Files over with this, and develop an OT4.

4. Harry Potter. Mulder and Scully investigate weird goings-on that, unbeknownst to them, are caused by foolhardy Death Eaters.

5. Captain Planet. Mulder and Scully investigate a group of kids who appear to be able to control the elements.

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allothi: top 5 fictional places for a talking chicken to do an internship

1. UNCRC (United Nations Chickens Rights Council)

2. Narnia, 'cos what better place for a talking animal?

3. In Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University library, under the tutelage of the Librarian.

4. An apprenticeship with Death, of any fandom. If Discworld can have a Death of Rats, why can't there be a Death of Chickens?

5. The chicken mafia, shipping illegal feed and trafficking hens, extorting protection fees to terrorize other chickens during the Bird Flu scare. I guess this is more an apprenticeship than an internship, if anything. The work's tough, but the pay is great and you meet all sorts of interesting people!

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animus_wyrmis: top 5 things I want to see in the Dawn Treader movie

1. Peter & Susan in some form. Either in the beginning/end, or maybe in flashbacks. Not that this is going to happen, apparently.

2. hot actors and compelling characterizations for Drinian and other crew members, to encourage fiiiiic

3. buttloads and buttloads of chemistry between Edmund and Caspian, whether antagonistic or otherwise. Maybe they challenge each other's kingship, or maybe Edmund ends up guiding and supporting Caspian, because Edmund has much experience being "the other king".

4. references to how things Used To Be

5. the star's daughter having a name

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miakun: 5 things Will would have done if he'd gone to Camelot, which is more a solidification of the comments section here. When I write my "Will lives!" AU, the following things will totally totally happen.

1. surprise Arthur by being rather competent at hunting. Much more so than Merlin, who relies on magic than actual skill when it comes to hunting. Merlin is excused from future hunting excursions, much to Merlin's relief, and Arthur and Will get bonding time.

2. share Merlin's room. It was meant to be a temporary arrangement, but they get used to it.

3. recognize Morgana's magicalness without anyone needing to tell him. Will grew up seeing Merlin struggle with the same kind of thing, and he knows the signs.

4. is one of the people struck down by the Old Religion in the finale when Merlin bargains for Arthur's life.

5. seamlessly become Gaius's other son-figure because it's demand-and-supply with Will's own father issues.

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SREIOUSLY, DID MERLIN TOUCH THE UNICORN BEFORE OR AFTER IT DIED?? I COULDN'T SEE)

I just rewatched it in glorious HD (and made my mom watch it), it doesn't seem like he did. I was sad. He did come RIGHT UP TO IT THOUGH.

I want my dad to watch that episode, because it's such a boy episode with all the rat eating and bug eating, yet UNICORNS!

Mom went through the exact same reactions I did, which was hilarious, she was like, "Omg, I hate Arthur, what a jerk! Why would you shoot a Unicorn!" and then like kept ranting about how she hated him and then when he showed his true NICENESS she was like, "Dammit" and then all mad because he redeemed himself at the end. And I was like "SEE, SEE!"

I watched the Will episode alone though, my mom saw part, but I didn't force her through the death scene, because I got all sad. Kid plays a good death scene, actually. It's too bad it's one of the only ones that doesn't have a "HAHAH OH WAIT NOT DEAD" moment in the show.

There would be loooooaaaaads of horn jokes! The kind of nudge-winks that go over kids' heads but the adults guffaw at, because sometimes fandom makes me forget that 'Merlin' is a family show, seriously lolol.

NORMAL HEDGES. God, Will doesn't even know why he puts up with Merlin sometimes, he says. And Merlin just smiles, because Arthur says the same thing. (OR, ARTHUR SAYS THAT, AND MERLIN JUST SMILES BECAUSE WILL SAYS THE SAME THING.)

And maybe be quite surprised as to how hot Nimueh was. MERLIN FAILED TO MENTION THAT FACT OF COURSE, he always ignores the IMPORTANT DETAILS.
AHAHAHA

it's such a boy episode with all the rat eating and bug eating, yet UNICORNS!
AND YET UNICORNS <33. OH SHOW. Their TROO LOVE bringing unicorns back to life is, like, such a perfect summation of this show, I can't even.

because sometimes fandom makes me forget that 'Merlin' is a family show, seriously lolol.

Ahaha, seriously. NBC should be showing it at like 6pm, not 8pm, they're such morons. Then again, there's a lot of HEAD CUTTING OFF for the kids to consume.

(OR, ARTHUR SAYS THAT, AND MERLIN JUST SMILES BECAUSE WILL SAYS THE SAME THING.)

Ahahhaa. But never at the same time, or they'd both deny it and maybe hit him on the head. I love smug Merlin. He has to realize how awesome he is even without magic (although, god, the bit in the Will episode, there are so many little moments you catch on a rewatch, Gwen hands him a sword and he GRABS THE POINTY END and she just takes it away and gives him this 'You must have been DROPPED ON YOUR HEAD as a child' and shows him where the HILT is) - because he barely uses any magic in the Unicorn episode and he's still hilarious. Actually he gets kind of PWNED by Anhora in that episode. By MAGICAL HEDGES.

I bet Will would never let it go that Merlin got beaten by a bush. Mutilated fire casting sorcerer, no problem. BUT MAGICAL HEDGES OH NO!

AND YET UNICORNS <33. OH SHOW. Their TROO LOVE bringing unicorns back to life is, like, such a perfect summation of this show, I can't even.

I always mention the Unicorn episode when I'm telling people about the show. Which probably makes them think I'm slow, but it's just the best episode AND IT HAS UNICORNS.

I realized that no one else could have done Arthur as well, like when he sits down at the table for the ~~ripped off Princess Bride~~ drinking scene, and Anhora tells him the test and he gets all "WTF does that prove? THAT'S DUMB. YOU ARE DUMB" not many actors could have pulled that off and gone back to normal.

OH OH and I was thinking about what you said about Will getting bored when Arthur did his noble speeches and YOU ARE RIGHT. Because when Arthur is giving that fantastic speech to the people of Ealdor and being all noble and handsome, Will is in the background like ROLLING HIS EYES.

I never noticed that! OH MERLIN. Oh Gwen. You're the only sensible one of the whole bunch.

Whenever I tell people the reasons I love this show, it always feels like I'm telling them the reasons this show sucks.

Anhora tells him the test and he gets all "WTF does that prove? THAT'S DUMB. YOU ARE DUMB"
GOD, RIGHT?? Bradley James is pretty good at not letting ridiculousness slide past Arthur's radar. Like in the Lancelot episode where he was all, "Your name is Lance...a lot? Seriously?"

Will has little patience for distant royalty who take his loved ones away from him. :(

I never noticed that! OH MERLIN. Oh Gwen. You're the only sensible one of the whole bunch.

LOL, god I think I loved Gwen the most in "The Beginning of the End" when everyone's all crazy about Mordred and she basically has no lines the entire episode, but her face is full of "YOU GUYS ARE SO FUCKING DUMB BUT I AM TOO POLITE AND KNOW MY STATION TO SAY SO" the entire time.

Whenever I tell people the reasons I love this show, it always feels like I'm telling them the reasons this show sucks.

I know! It's like, they use cliches, sure, but they GO WITH IT and make them into something new. They don't shy away from the crack, they embrace it!

Like in the Lancelot episode where he was all, "Your name is Lance...a lot? Seriously?"

God, I need to rewatch that episode again. That's when the juice in my ipod died on the ride back home. But yeah, I like how even though he's sort of DUMB and Merlin is all magical, Arthur tends to be the logical one at points and doesn't like the WTF slide.

Also he's very, very pretty.

Will has little patience for distant royalty who take his loved ones away from him. :(

Awwwwwwwwwwwww. Ealdor must have been SO BORING without Merlin. I can't even imagine.

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STOP BEING SUCH A GIRL, MERLIN <3

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