Could fusion is and always was completely nonsense, it was a design flaw of a measurement instrument that made people think it worked, even though everyone who worked in nuclear fusion immediately dismissed as impossible. There’s a great book that covers the subject called atomic adventures, written by one of the guys very involved in disproving the idea

A knights table is one of the stupidest movies she’s ever seen?

Wow, she’s got a lot of stupid movie catching up to do

Why would you be ashamed of this?

It does, but it’s essentially static weight distributed over the whole thing, rather than specific moving points if pressure