User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Series 4 review/@comment-4623180-20120205122608/@comment-4135736-20120207115356

I agree about Lancelot's death in the Darkest Hour Part 2, that was really unesessary, I was furious when I saw him die and it spoilt the whole episode for me. It was too early for him to die and they could have done more with his character, especially as a Knight of Camelot. Lancelot really was a wasted character, he only appeared once in Series 1, 2 and 3, and then killed off just after he became a Knight, what a pity. It would have been much better if they either showed a magical duel between Merlin and the Cailleach ending with her being sacrificed, or showed the Cailleach testing Merlin by making a human like creature appear out of the Veil and showing a magical duel between Merlin and that creature with Merlin sacrificing it in the end. I don't think that Uther would sacrifice himself and I bet that if he saw the Cailleach, he would order the Knights to kill her. I didn't like The Wicked Day and Lancelot Du Lac, they along with Goblin's Gold and Beauty and the Beast, are my least favourite Merlin episodes. The beggining of The Wicked Day with Arthur's birthday celebration was fine but after that the episode slowly became rather dull and boring and I completely lost my interest when Arthur said that magic is "pure evil". As for Lancelot Du Lac, I hated everything about it, I didn't like how Lancelot was just reduced into a slave, it would have been better if Lancelot was not killed off in The Darkest Hour and either kissed Gwen, enchanted or not, out of his own will or showed Lancelot getting kidnapped by Morgana and getting enchanted by her to fall in love with Gwen.