User blog comment:Morganaforever/Morganaforever's Episode Review: Arthur's Bane, Part 1/@comment-68.125.52.44-20121007192011

I'm not sure why everyone had a problem with the death sentence. Sefa's treachery cost dozens of lives, as far as Gwen knew including the King's, and threatened the survival of the kingdom. Sefa is lucky she didn't get a sentence of "torture her for information then execute her with nail clippers." "Helping your father" is bringing him food or medicine, not betraying your friends and destroying a kingdom for him.

My big problem with the episode was the lazy writing. Our brave knights will stand and fight a DRAGON, but run from a wolf? (Well, probably wolves, but only one was shown). And worst of all, the silly net trap. Hello, Merlin? Magic? Remember? He didn't even use it when Arthur was asleep. And it was just a net. You don't need a sword to get out of a net if you have an entire day to do it!!!

These were excuses to have the knights get captured (although I won't complain too hard since Morgana took all their shirts away) and to have Arthur & Merlin meet Mordred - and that could have been so much better written, with at least some dramatic tension.

In any case, the episode looked beautiful, I loved seeing Annis again, the new characters look promising (except the glowing alien, which was unintentionally hilarious), and Colin Morgan has gotten really, really hot. I wish they wouldn't put so much effort into hiding his looks.

RI