User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Series 5 - the 5 Best and Worst Characters/@comment-5659316-20130109175255

Hmm, I disagree with quite a few of these.

I think Daegal was a much more sympathetic/understandable/motivated character than Kara ever was (and I'm DELIGHTED Freya beat Kara out in the arena! Kara was very well-acted, but her character was actually fairly poor, which is really surprising for a guest character in a Julian Jones episode -I'm considering writing a blog post about why I feel her character wasn't all it could have been- whereas Freya was BOTH well-acted and a well-written character). Daegal wasn't a real Druid, yet he was willing to pretend to be one, not because he was a laughing/stabbing/hand-rubbing and smirking magic-must-win fanatic, but because he needed the money and didn't realize what his task entailed. At least not fully, at any rate. His character made a lot of sense; you could tell at first that he didn't care for Merlin, then that he was TRYING not to when he was being kind to him, and his visiable struggle made it very plausable why he would go back and try to help a poisoned/dying Merlin. Whereas Kara was pretty one-dementional in spite of the actress' best attempts. The only 'other side' of her we see is her love for Mordred. Which, while I believe it's real, she actually has VERY LITTLE real respect for. If she loves Mordred so much, what is with her going to stab an unarmed (because he sheathed his sword before he came near her) Arthur, who, by being nice to her there, was actually PROVING Mordred's claim that he was a good man. I'm not saying she shouldn't have tried to stab him (as the plot would have been messed up if she didn't), but a moment of hesistation (which would make more sense, because it would be a plausable reason Merlin had time to make that dagger go flying out of her hand like that), or a motive beyond random fantatical hate of Camelot would have been good. Personally, I would have really liked if Arthur unthinkingly put his hand on the hilt of his sword or something and Kara mistook it for him about to go back on his word and THEN she tried to stab him. Even evil Morgana had more of an understandable motivation for wanting Arthur dead than Kara. Kara was just Alvarr on crack (oh, and female, so she could be Mordred's love interest).

Also, I kinda liked Queen Guinevere, even though she wasn't as sweet and innocent as she was in earlier seasons.

I liked Morgana too, though mostly this is due to her relationship with Aithusa. Really, however, I wish Freya had had a more active role in the show (like that they'd brought her back at the end of series 4 breifly and then had her come back for multipile guest appearences in season five) so Aithusa could have been HER dragon instead of Morgana's. My reason is that -as adorable as the whole Morgana/Aithusa thing was- it was too predictable. Merlin's baby dragon takes Morgana's side (saw that coming a mile away...), etc... But if it had been Freya it would have been more interesting because The Lady of the Lake really kept comparing Freya to Merlin in general ("It could have been ME in that cage" "Freya's very different from you.." etc...) and it went NOWHERE. If she had her own dragon and maybe, though not go fully evil (like Morgana), had a disagreement with Merlin and/or Arthur and/or one of Camelot's knights (as the lady of the Lake actually DOES in many of the legends) and was tempted to use the dragon to settle it in some way but ultimately decided not to, though maybe after some kind of half-failure and conversation with Merlin (she's very loyal to him, giving that sword to him to save Camelot after Arthur was the one who killed her in season 2, so I can see this turning her around before she goes too far)... It would have been epic! Also, if Aithusa was HER dragon, what Kilgharrah said in season four about Aithusa the white dragon being a good sign for the future of Ablion would have actually made sense! As it is, my theory is that poor Kilgharrah was just wrong about that. Which does make his character more rounded (as someone so wise is not always right/in the right), but didn't we already accompish that with him being semi-evil for The Last Dragonlord and attacking Camelot?

I agree whole-heartedly about Uther though! His cameo in season five sucked big time. And I agree more than just Freya's arm should have appeared OF COURSE! LOL.