Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140517082836/@comment-5102537-20140531092300

Issy5209 wrote: Its quite something when by far the majority of a fandom condemns a series finale. The only one I've seen that's comparable has been the recent "How I met your Mother"  There was quite an outrage. Its quite something too, when by far the majority of fics show 100 times more imagination and make more sense than what was shown by the actual paid writers and show-runners. No wonder the fans feel that as soon as they realised they were not going to get another season, they couldn't be bothered, or show any care in the characters they created to do justice to them.

I think that this is a general problem of today's productions. The bigger, the better, the more drama and deaths, the more thrilling and "woah!", no matter the story and alternative, better plots and endings. I'm not sure that the majority of viewers really want the characters to die in shows and movies. Besides, it has become so usual and kind of standard that it's getting boring. Wasn't there an outrage too, back then in the nintees, I guess, when Dan of the TV show "Roseanne" died in the finale?

I really don't know why everybody seems to think that a movie or TV show only gets interesting with the deaths and the misery of the characters. If you watch a show that prepares you for that element of drama and tragedy, it's alright. A show like "Merlin" just doesn't fit into this concept. Even "Once Upon a Time" can deal with it in a really good way  despite the fact that the classic fairytales are actually quite cruel most of the time.

As for Mordred had to die in order to the prophecy being fulfilled. It was said in season one that "the boy must die", referring to the fact that he was destined to kill Arthur. And Kilgharrah said that if Arthur dies, the destiny can't be fulfilled. It meant that Arthur's life was the important part, not necessarily Mordred's death. Mordred died when Arthur was fatally injured already, and I wonder what difference it had made if Mordred had survived. He was a member of the Old Religion and wasn't evil, so he had the potential to change things later. If Mordred had continued fighting against Camelot, Merlin could have taken care of it. Not to mention that Mordred wouldn't have been the only one attacking Camelot, even after Arthur's death. We still don't know what exactly had changed with Gwen on the throne. Basically, there was no way that all of a sudden everyone accepted magic and that there were no more battles between magic and those who hated magic. Camelot was weakened even more after the battle at Camlann and logic demands that it was an even more desired target for enemies and also other leaders and kings who would have liked to take advantage of it.

Issy5209, Aithusa becoming the Loch Ness monster is quite a funny idea! :-D