User blog comment:MerlinDragonLord/My Merlin Speech/@comment-4623180-20130205153605

Probably the first one. People definitely do overlook Merlin. Unfortunately I knew only two people who were into the show where I am (in real life), one was my sister and another a girl from school, but she moved schools so I had no one to talk to it about.. except on the Wiki of course!!!!

People will see it on TV and think "oh, that's just a lame family show about magic, I'd rather watch [fake] people on Big Brother". Unfortunately that's the kind of society we live in... it's becoming decreasingly diverse and people will watch those shows because it's cool, and well simply, they don't have to think as much. Merlin was just so unique and we had it in great doses, it wasn't shoved down our throat with millions of commercial ads like reality TV shows are. And we have communities where everyone has a say and everyone is creative (fan fic for example, fan art and speculation), like Merlin Wiki, which I think is the best one for Merlin on the web. Things that cater for smaller audiences are simply more enriching... but you know Merlin was BIG, and competed well with the X Factor which it was up against on British TV (shame), it was really hope for TV.

As for it returning, storywise, I really think it's time for the show to end, otherwise things would get way too sour.. and they started to run out of ideas, like having so many traitors in the walls, but that's my opinion.