User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Lance-uh-not/@comment-5102537-20130103105501

Interesting blog post.

Ive never been a big fan of the Arthurian legends, even though Lancelot used to be my favourite character when I was a kid. Mostly because I grew up with the fluffy romatical stories about Arthur and the knights, but I got bored by it very quickly.

Anyway, in this re-teling, things didn't have to go the way they did with the well-known legends. That's what made it special until it was all ruined in the last two seasons. Here, on "Merlin", Lancelot was the only real good person, the only real noble character in the entire story. He was even better than Merlin and Gwen, but he was also a mature character and a believable knight, a good contrast to the immature knights who teased and even bullied Merlin. I wasn't really bothered by the fact that he returned as a shade, because it wasn't his fault. What bothered me was the fact that he died, that he suffered when returning as a shade (his soul), that he died again and that in the epsiode of his return suicide was considered to be a redeemable feature and a noble thing. Additionally, I found it very annoying that he wasn't even mentioned just once after his second death. The show runners got rid of him as fast as possible, in a very callous way (just like they did with Morgause, Uther, Morgana, Gwaine and Mordred). Just like  "they're dead, let's move on and forget about them."

In this re-telling, he deserved a better ending and most of all he deserved to survive. His nobility and sense of honour would have contributed great deal to the so-called great kingdom under Arthur's reign. Arthur could have learnt from him, Merlin would have had a close friend and some terrible things might have been prevented with him being around. You know that Uther was my favourite character, but actually, the only real good and sensible person on this show was Lancelot. I think it was shame that he was killed off.