User blog comment:Fimber/The "Merlin" finale ("The Diamond of the Day")/@comment-5253758-20121224162057/@comment-5102537-20121224231604

Hi Merlaa, no offence taken and no need to apologise at all. Don't worry! All is fine, I value every opinion and you did not offend me in any way whatsoever :-)

I actually didn't want to watch Merlin anymore after the disaster of "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon" and I skipped the next epsiode because I really, really had enough of it. I've already had enough of season four but watched the epsiodes later with a friend who bought the DVDs (and then regretted it again). Anyway, I was asked to watch at least "The Disir" because it dealt with one of my favourite plotlines, the Old Religion. So I watched it and was disappointed again. Then I skipped every other epsiode until "The Drawing of the Dark" after all these negative comments flooded this wikia. I thought I was done with it once and for all, but my daughter insisted on watching the finale because she only wanted to know what's going to happen to Kilgharrah and Aithusa and that's why I saw the finale too.

You're right, I have totally lost my faith in this show and it actually is a total waste of time to even write about it. However, I'm interested in psychology, philosophy and ethics and sometimes there are quite some interesting comments here, about which I'd like to discuss when connecting those subjects to real life, for example (recently we discussed death penalty in real life which I found very interesting). That, and the fact that I have grown fond of some nice people here is the reason why I even bother talking about the show.

Anyway, as for Gwen, I found it unrealistic from the very beginning that she held a grudge against Uther because he didn't think highly of servants. It was the most normal and common thing in the dark ages, and Uther's attitude towards commoners/servants was even extremely soft compared to what really happened. I've always thought that she was talking about magic in the first two seasons and that she was referring to Arthur as the better man in regard to allowing magic someday. She has changed from the strong, kindhearted, wise, humorous, lovely, great and fascinating Gwen to the most of all superflous queen who seems to be happy to be queen and seems to have forgorgotten about the real important things. I think it's a shame.

And Arthur does indeed persecute sorceres (I should say "did"). He is no different from Uther except that he promised freedom to the druids. Some fans said that at least Arthur wants to give sorcerers a trial. Well, Uther did that too, except when Tom escaped from his cell. Yes, Arthur was a little softer and more relaxed, but in the end, he killed and persecuted sorcerers, forbid magic and even denied them a proper burial. Gwen has no reason to think that Arthur was better than Uther because we never really saw what exactly she disapproved of in regard to Uther, and I don't want to think that it obviously was all only about Arthur marrying her.

As for Morgana, she killed many people out of pure rage and sadism, she didn't need a real reason. It was enough if someone served her purpose or simly was in her way. She enjoyed torturing others and lost her humanity completely. Crying over Mordred doesn't change that a bit, because it if was all so easy, evil characters only have to cry and everything is fine again. She was the worst and most evil villain, yet the most unbelievable one I've ever seen on TV or in a movie. Shame that she was destroyed that way only for the sake of drama.

I was very disappointed that we didn't get to see just a bit of her thoughts about Emrys/Merlin when she learnt of his true identity. What good was the reveal for when nothing changed but when she still simply tried to kill him? I wanted to know what she thinks, what she feels, if she was able to connect the dots. Instead she did what she had already done for at least two seasons: trying to get rid of Merlin. The reveal was totally superflouse.