Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623180-20121103100513/@comment-5674726-20130727001315

Annis' reaction would have made more sense if she was shown not to be especially grief-stricken following her husband's death and waging war more out of duty/appearances than because she wanted revenge. In that case, it would make sense that she would readily accept Arthur's deal, and that she'd have extended her friendship to him when he allowed her to be seen to retaliate after the killing of her husband without losing any men.

As it was, her reaction was a bit much from a grieving widow and, to me, it came across as trying too hard to establish Arthur as a wonderful King who could potentially unite Albion.

Logically, even if war was averted, relations between Caerleon and Camelot should have been decidedly cool and, frankly, the killing of the king should have been something that would make the rulers of the other kingdoms of Albion very wary. Who is this wet behind the ears Arthur to dare to pass judgement on a king? Does he think himself superior to the rest of us? Etc. However, that didn't fit with the agenda of presenting Arthur as a fantastic ruler in the making.

Something similar happened with Princess Mithian. Logically, a king should be highly offended that his daughter was brought to Camelot, presented as its future Queen and then rejected. Whatever about calling it off in the preliminary stages of arranging the betrothal, they should have been past the point of no return when Mithian arrived in Camelot. It'd be insult added to injury to learn that the man who was to marry her chose a servant instead. The surrendering of Gedref might have been enough to avert war but relations between the two kingdoms should have been frosty, at best.

However, again, that did not fit with the kind of ruler they wanted to present Arthur as so they were the best of friends at the end... even though I didn't see Nemeth, or Caerleon for that matter, lift a finger to help when Camelot was under attack by the Saxons.

Arthur claimed to be fighting for the united kingdoms but Camelot stood alone. The other kingdoms don't seem to have been aware that they were united.