User blog comment:Knightofthecart/Writers and producers, what did you want ?/@comment-4892425-20121230232932/@comment-4879894-20121231092522

I don't exactly think they don't care about the quality, but they understood that the success of Merlin remained in two topics : the evilness of Morgana and the Merthur bromance. Then, they focused on these two topîcs, relied on the acting skills of CM, BJ, KMG, and left all the others as collateral damages. It created a huge chaos, but they didn't mind as the final episode and and the whole series 5 had very good ratings (just take a look at imdb) and a big bunch of viewers.