User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Why Merlin/Mithian would just be a repeat of Arthur/Gwen/@comment-4640114-20121025164249/@comment-5659316-20121025183902

Hello there!

Yes, I understand that there is a lot the writer's COULD do. I never meant to imply they absoutely COULDN'T, my point was more that, unless they can make it extremely probable (thus taking time away from other characters to do so and creating a whole other problem), they SHOULDN'T.

I understand it would be, even if poorly done, at least SOMEWHAT different from Arthur/Gwen, in that Uther wouldn't be there to object and what-not. But, still, I'm sure Mithian's father would and THAT would be a repeat, unless he is far more passive than Uther, which doesn't strike me as likely.

All the same, I agree with you that it would be nice to see things slowly progressing. However, it wouldn't really be "different" from Arthur and Gwen. They started off slow, too. If you'll recall season 1; they never interacted much (so much so that quite a few fans were busy pairing up Arthur/Morgana and Merlin/Gwen, in spite of the legend) until The Moment of Truth and Le Morte D'Arthur. Then, in season 2, they had a chance to get to know each other better and the romance devoloped, kicking into full gear in season 3 and season 4.

My main beef with a Merlin/Mithian pairing is it would be a lot of work for the writers to little purpose. It adds nothing legend-wise (and they said they were going more Arthurian Legend this season), distracts from the other characters and possible pairings set up. And, if they don't want to do the hard work to make it make sense, it's just lazy, seeing as they'd have bumped off Morgana/Merlin, Merlin/Sefa, and the possible Merlin/Freya all off the show for no reason.

I'm sure I'd get over it/get used to it if it happened but I'm not crazy about the idea, in spite of my liking Mithian's character.