Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140329115401/@comment-24629321-20140407233611

Fimber wrote:

I found it disappointing that the Triple Goddess had the status of God instead of being just one of the gods/goddesses representing the unpleasant part of the Old Religion. I would also have loved to see a different side to the Old Religion, with a full pantheon of deities who may have had very different opinions on Camelot and Arthur's reign. I hoped we might see some of this when Merlin had to appeal to the White Goddess to help Gwen in 5x09. Instead I'm left unsure whether the White Goddess is even different from the Triple Goddess (although I'm presuming that she is—given the Triple Goddess's opinion of Arthur I doubt she would have aided him under another name). This could have been a fascinating opportunity to explore the relationships among the different figures of the Old Religion. Instead we got old Merlin in a dress. I definitely see the point about the last two seasons showing a definite decline. Some of the episodes were hard to even sit through. I did like the show on the whole, but it had the potential to be so much more than what it was!