User blog comment:MerlinUSA/Merlin -- The Big Picture/@comment-5102537-20130120143649/@comment-46.190.18.244-20130122233950

Just because Merlin is popular with men over 40...this has nothing to do with the show being popular with homosexuals. It may or may not be true, however let's not forget that it is mainly labelled as a FAMILY show(despite becoming a cruel mess after series 3). Many fathers and grandfathers watch it with their children. Isn't it too much to say that ALL the men in this segment are gay, bi or gay friendly?

The Merlin/Daegal scene had nothing homosexual in it. In fact, neither of those scenes have, and as a straight male, seeing a woman in a similar situation, nothing erotic would come to my mind. To some of my friends, it would though. I guess this had to do with how dirty minded one is(I don't mean it as an insult, I hope it does not sound as one).

If a part of the audience wants to think that Merlin and Arthur are gays, so be it. Another part of the audience thinks that Albion was created, and another one that Uther was always the blue monster we saw in 5x3. Others think that Gwen did something important, and others think that Morgana was a saint, and only others were to blame for her sins, or that her transition from series 2 to series 3 was "normal". Since I'm ok with everything else, I'm also ok with someone thinking Merlin and Arthur were gay, it's one's choice, but do not use it as a fact, since the show has not given us that. You enjoy it like that, keep it like that, just don't force it on others. Same goes for all the categories above.