Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20131019114834/@comment-5102537-20131027091049

Thanks for your suggestion, Edrea. I'll take this into consideration. The reason why we discussed the episodes on a weekly basis is that the "Merlin" episodes aired every week on TV. There's no need to comment the rewatching threads immediately, of course - and I think if there are even only a few people who would like to talk about the episodes, it's enough reason to continue.

So thank you :-)

As for the Season Three finale: I agree with criticizing Arthur for knighting commoners and therefore directly violating the First Code and acting against the law and his father's wishes. As ReganX wrote, this was completely disrespectful and not the first time that Arthur worked against his father and/or ignored his wishes and principles.

It's one thing to do it in order to save another (like when they saved Mordred, for example) but it's unacceptable when it comes to traditions and laws that exist for a reason and that don't endanger others, especially when Arthur has no right to simply change things the way he likes. Uther was still the king and also in a very dangerous, miserable and humiliating situation. Arthur actually betrayed his father's honour by changing the First Code.

However, I think as a noble/royal he had the right to knight others, just not commoners and he couldn't make them knights of Camelot. Depending on Camelot's laws, of course. Maybe they stated that only the king is allowed to knight men and maybe Uther could have declared their knighthood void. What we know is that only nobles could become knights of Camelot, so maybe the new knights just didn't belong to a particular kingdom at that point of time until Arthur was king.

Either way, it was disrespectful, if not illegal in regard to Camelot and its laws.

More to the episodes later.