Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20130801124135/@comment-59.101.249.242-20180412062244

Ok - I know it's 2018 and the series ended ages ago, but the sheer waste of storytelling still annoys me.

If the entire series was supposed to be about Merlin helping Arthur 'become the greatest king of all time' and 'bring about the time of Albion', then it failed miserably.

Finna, for instance - she gave Merlin nothing to 'help' him in the 'coming great battle' as she claimed - for all her death just to give him a scrap of paper in a box, the words written on it were pathetic, weak and spoke only of more doom and gloom; how was that suppose to 'carry their hopes'?

How was that supposed to 'bring about the time of Albion'?

How was that supposed to 'help' Merlin in the 'coming great battle'?

Then there's Arthur's promise to the spirit of the druid child through Elyan that once he was King, the laws would change - that was barely given any consideration; an empty promise writers had no intention of seriously revisiting, much less honouring. Seems it was far less effort to run with the tired old, 'magic-killed-my-parents' theme.

None of it makes sense because there's too many gaping holes in the writing of the series.

Then the waste-of-time plot about a big slug sucking the magic out of Merlin. Really? Oh well, I guess at least he got to see his dad again - briefly - but what a waste of time.

And Kilgarrah - why couldn't Merlin have called for him the instant it was known Arthur was dying? He seemed to have developed a dose of 'selective memory'.

That the focus on Arthur's death was so ridiculously stretched out until it was too late to be of any real help once he was actually called, is so blatantly and obviously the stunt of hasty and lazy writers that it just makes me want to scream.

And let's not even talk about how they turned Arthur into little more than another Uther - albeit a slightly nicer version of Uther.

Why couldn't we have seen all that was constantly promised during the entire series, but never delivered?

The time of Albion, the return of magic to the land and Arthur's revelation of who Merlin really was, is exactly what the fifth series should have been about, not the hasty, nonsensical drivel that was ultimately dished up.