User blog comment:Stacey aerist/What made you watch in the first place why did you like it so much/@comment-5995315-20130202142125

I live in the U.S. and don't watch much television, but my roommate and I had a new HDTV and often left it on in the kitchen for background noise.

It was tuned to NBC one evening and the second or third episode of Merlin was on. Bradley James is what caught our attention, and we turned the sound up. Right away we picked up on the bromantic tease so we started watching every episode.

It was only much later that I started noticing Colin Morgan. The show was so over-the-top about the bromance we wondered how it even got on the air over here. Sure enough, it was moved to cable the next season and it was harder to keep track of there.

We didn't have home cable and I forgot about Merlin for awhile. I assumed the show had been cancelled. Then, about a year and a half ago, I plugged "Merlin" into Google on a hunch and found out YouTube was hosting all the episodes up through season 4, at least for the time being. I loved the episodes and I got caught up pretty quickly.

Naturally, I made sure to watch season 5 in real time. When I got my roommate to start watching the season as well he had only seen all of season 1. He was astonished and impressed by the change in the story arc. He thought the cinematography, for instance, was much better. One of his questions seeing the jump from 1 to 5 was why Merlin was still a servant. Well, we got an answer to that.

So it was just luck that I happened to have the television on.

