Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140308144416/@comment-24629321-20140309203735

I liked that they took the opportunity to have one more episode on the lighter side as the end of the series closed in. By this point I'm used to the plot holes and ping-pong ball characters. I just kind of assumed that they'd hired an entirely new writing staff who hadn't watched the show's earlier episodes, so it blows my mind that this was written by the same writer as The Wicked Day. It was so surprising, jarring even, to see the sudden turn in Uther's character to the point of him actually attacking Arthur. In the past it seemed they'd always wanted to turn him into a more sympathetic character—whoops, guess not. I would rather they hadn't brought him back at all as he got a fine send-off in The Wicked Day. Although, it was gratifying to see Merlin reveal his magic to Uther at long last. And it's interesting that with his last words Uther attempted to warn Arthur about Merlin. I'm not sure what to make of that (did he still actually care about Arthur after all, if he tried to warn him?) but it's probably nothing more than the writers taking another chance to tease the final reveal and snatch it away.