Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140426100805/@comment-24629321-20140506141027

Issy5209 wrote:

this is, after-all supposedly a  "before they were famous" take on the story. They seemed to lose sight of this fairly quickly, at least by seasons 4 and 5. When I began watching under that premise, I fully expected the show to last only until Arthur became king and then end. Apparently the showrunners had at some point decided to go right up until the end (Arthur's death), but unfortunately that meant we lost out on most of the middle (questing knights for instance), though they tried to tell those stories in different ways (i.e., the role the 'Cup of Life' played in the show). I was not disappointed that the show continued after Arthur became king—I respect a show that's willing to change its dynamic and keep going—but I wish they had left things off at a point where the legends could fill in the rest of the details.