Board Thread:(Re)Writing "Merlin"/@comment-174.217.15.199-20180709211615/@comment-174.217.27.64-20180917151551

I liked that Merlin wasn't a romantic character. That said I guess that to make her survive I would've had Merlin run off with her but allow himself to be captured by Arthur in order to save her or something like that. Or maybe she would run away after injuring Merlin.(Merlin would probably still try to help her though so that probably wouldn't have worked.)

If I had to put romance in to keep the romantic types happy I probably would have replaced the Lancelot/Gwen storyline with Freya and had her survive for more episodes of the show. Maybe Merlin lifts her curse and then she goes to live in Ealdor. But then there would have to be a really good explanation why he can't live there too.

Maybe later in the show Merlin's powers could have been revealed saving Freya from Arthur.