Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-82.156.4.128-20121224212052/@comment-5621713-20130109183015

I agree they could have done better. There were so many loose ends that they could have at least done a better job with one or two of them. I still think they wasted four episodes with the senseless evil Gwen storyline.Four whole episodes and all it did was remind us how cruel and evil Morgana is, and how Arthur fails to pick up on a close relatives duplicity. It really didn't add anything to the story, and wasted valuable time when the series was to end. The only thing that makes sense is that the writers thought they were going to have another season until the Drawing of the Dark or the Kindness of Strangers. Then, they only had three episodes to end the whole thing. I have watched season five over about four times, and the ending starts to grow on me, but I still finish feeling very sad. I know the legend has Arthur die, but this show was almost as much a comedy as it was an action fantasy, they could have stuck to the same style and let Arthur live. Now that the show is over there isn't much good to complaining, it is what it is. I just keep hoping that those rumors of a spin off or a movie trilogy are true, and we will see the Once and Future King again.