Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20131121000155/@comment-5674726-20140126120303

Fimber wrote: I would have liked the idea of Merlin and Gwen being together because I think they would have made an awesome couple. They couldn't do this since the legend is about Arthur and Gwen, but it would have been interesting nevertheless.

There's no reason they couldn't, if that was what they wanted - after all, the legend also involves an elderly Merlin, not a young man. I think that it would have been a good idea to have taken the show in a different direction to the one that viewers had been conditioned to expect by previous adaptations.