User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Capture the Guinevere?/@comment-4683199-20121112191124

I actually like that the plot continues. The writers are showing us that they can do something like this WITHOUT making it a two (or four) parter. Most episodes in season 1,2 and some in 3, and a few (*ahem* Lamia ahem* ) were like this:

1.Villain comes to Camelot.

2.Villain wants to harm Arthur (or another good guy) in some way.

3.Merlin beats villain before he can do so.

4. And also, villain is never seen again.

Examples: Valiant, A Remedy to Cure All Ills, The Gates of Avalon, The Curse of Cornelius Sigan, The Witchfinder, and many other episodes. Different types of this also happens, like when Morgause told Arthur the truth about his birth, to cause him to kill Uther, to harm himself (The Sins of The Father.)

So, the fact that the villain is not just a random person that just comes for the sake of an extra episode ( *ahem* Lamia ahem*), and that the villain is continuous (the writers are noticibly [<this is a real word, checked on MS Word, why is it underlined?] ( getting better at this, Series 1 had only a few episodes with Nimueh, and the same as Series 2 for Morgause, Series 3 was a little better, and Series 4, finally, almost all episodes were concerned with Morgana... except a few  (ahem.... i'll stop doing this now)).

Now, we get will episodes like this:

1.Villain steals one of the main (good) characters

2.Heroes rescue her back

3.However, Villain made this character another villain

4.Nobody will notice this right away (the next parts are speculation)

5.New Villain works undercover, probably Merlin finds out

6.Merlin cannot simply beat new Villain, since she is friend

7.Merlin somehow makes New Villain good again, but what New Villain has already done is still affecting good guys.

i think i like this type of episode better, the plot is more detailed, and even after the episode is done, what happens in the episode is related to the WHOLE plot.