Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20131121000155/@comment-5674726-20140126133054

Fimber wrote: However, a whole different story would have been far more interesting, especially since I never ever doubted for the fraction of a second that Arthur would marry Gwen. So all the fuss and drama between them was very, very boring to me. It was an unnecessary intermezzo, simply because it was clear from the beginning that they will get married anyway. Same with the Round Table and Camlann, once it was clear that the battle at Camlann was about to come.

That's one reason I think that they needed to have Guinevere not be Queen, as it would be such a departure from the conventional. Arthurian legends, so much so that viewers wouldn't be able to take anything for granted.