User blog comment:Phoenixon/What do you think about Series 5/@comment-4623180-20111216144417

Okay: 1. Mordred is definitely returning. Him and Morgana go and form an alliance. I assume Helios and Agravaine are dead by now. Morgana knows who Merlin really is and plots for him dead, so then she can be definite she'll get to Arthur. 2. Gwen is queen. Merlin has a higher status. (And new uniform) Her and Merlin are still good friends and she treats him as an equal. A couple of the knights of the round table have died, but the knights are still aplenty, especially with Tristan and Isolde now in the team. 3. Arthur knows that two of the dragons are still alive by now, and really wants to seek out who could be the dragonlord. 4. Arthur learns the true circumstances of his birth, and his hatred towards magic slowly subsides. 5. Gaius dies. :( (I think it should happen,t hough, it can help Merlin's character dramatically grow, plus Gaius was meant to die a while ago, according to Kilgharrah) 6. Lancelot somehow comes back again, through supernatural circumstances. Arthur learns he was a shade. Very emotional episode, where the love triangle is finally concluded. 7. More episodes with disputes between kingdoms- Odin should be killed (he is annoying i.e. he sends out troops for raids, random attacks and sent Uther's assassin). 8. Freya meets Merlin again through supernatural circumstances (like with Merlin and Gaius) 9. Morgana starts another allegiance, and plots some other devious way to get into Camelot, I don't know how. There is no longer a traitor within the wall (we're over that, aren't we?) but another very clever, twisted trap lures Camelot to its knees (something not as predictably suspenseful, but suspenseful and unpredictable! e.g. the audiences think they see it coming, and when they least expect it, BAM. 10. The Great Dragon's allegiance with Merlin could possibly be threatened. More dragon plots are important. 11. A great battle of Camelot, bigger than ever before with more twists, traitors, magic and dark secrets than ever. 12. Some more love interests, possibly with Morgana, but the producers have ruled that off a bit in interviews, saying Morgana "doesn't have time"... And then I have no idea!! The producers don't either. There probably will be more series after that due to popular demand but if the main legends are ruled off (Morgana + Mordred dying) what is there left? Mordred is Arthur's doom after all. Will Series 5-8 be Mordred and Morgana as the main enemies? How repetitive. The producers also mentioned a baby between Gwen and Arthur wouldn't be feasible until series 8, and they seemed to be joking. What could be up their sleeves? All we can do is speculate, and wait and see what twists await. Obviously the word "twists" means something unexpected, the speculation never accounts for what really happens.

I just hope, throughout Series 5, we have these things happen:

1) Of course, the humour, that's what makes the show what it is- a PG family thing! It makes it open to a variety of people. Removing it the humour will make it bland and tasteless. 2) A bit of 'dark' humour' added in. Mwah. 3) Merlin's magic explored in STRONG depths. 4) TWISTS and death and so on happening every second episode, or at that sort of ratio/portion. 5) Episodes that don't disregard past events. LOTS MORE *STRONG* discontinuity. For e.g. in A Herald Of The New Age, they regarded the previous events with Gwen, but in Aithusa, the previous events with Uther weren't regarded! Maybe they were in some deleted scenes. I don't mind THAT much, but a little more mentioning more often would make it so much more realistic. 6) Lots and lots more references to the Arthurian legend. 7) Series 4 is a darker nature theme, Series 5 could add on to that with more elements of 'grand' and 'epic-ness'. For example, they already use cinema cameras, that's great, but they could use even huger sets and so on. They should rev up their full-scale efforts to make it as close to movie-epicness as possible!

That's all. THANKS.