User blog comment:Morganaforever/Episode Review: A Lesson in Vengeance/@comment-4135736-20121118145910/@comment-4135736-20121118165609

Now for my more detailed comment, the things I didn't like about this episode was that Gwen's character is starting to become one dimentional just like what Morgana became in Series 3 and what Uther became in The Death song of Uther Pendragon. And why has Gwen suddenly become so stupid, what happened to the smart, intelligent Queen from Arthur's Bane: Parts 1 and 2, technically Morgana KILLED Elyan, her brother in the previous episode and she is loyal to Morgana without much hesitation, I know the mandrake root perhaps brainwashed her but come on, I'd have expected her to hate Morgana even more. I thought Gwen would become even smarter but instead the producers are now trying to ruin her character, how sad.

Also, why is Arthur still being an idiot, he still hasn't learned from the two betrayals of "smirking Morgana" and "uncle evil Agravaine" since he couldn't even figure out that Gwen poisoned him, I was also expecting Arthur to make Merlin his advisor towards the end but nothing happened. Its also sad how Merlin is the smartest character in the show at the moment, I expected much better of the other characters.

The only things I really liked was Colin's acting (he was brilliant when Merlin thought Arthur was dead) and Dragoon's return (the scenes with him, those knights and Audrey were hilarious). Other than those two things, I have started to lose my interest in this show and unless Gwen returns to normal and Arthur figures out what she has done, I might consider turning off Merlin for good even though I don't want to.