User blog comment:Darkzod/Series 4 lacked the consistency from the other series'/@comment-141.255.104.188-20120702163357/@comment-5102537-20120715180649

What you wrote here: "About Agravaine I believe that he wasn't THAT important but having him in the show showed a lot of things about the other characters so I don't think that it was a waste of time. For example it realy showed Arthur wanting to trust the only relative that could be there to help him but eventually he was betrayed again. That makes us realise that Arthur is a normal guy who wants to be guided and when he is betrayed he loses his hope...."

I think that Agravaine could have been an important character if his motivations had been expained. The way he was brought into the plot of season four left everyone wondering who he really was and why he wanted to help Morgana destroying Arthur and conquering Camelot. Hating Arthur because he was born seemed to be a little silly and simple, I think.

Same with Arthur only listening to family instead listening to friends and hearing their warnings. If it had ever been a subject before, if they had ever dealt with such a "problem" or conflict before, it would have made sense, but given that Arthur never really listened to Merlin and never really asked Gwen for advice, it was all completely out of the blue and unnecessary because it couldn't be seen as a change in behaviour or as some kind of development. It wasn't obvious and there wasn't a hint that Arthur had always listened to friends before and now changed that, but he did what he has always done, only a lot more stubborn and very unclever. He didn't see what was right in front of his eyes - but without a reason. If he had experienced something terrible, suffered a shock, for examle, and if it had been stated out, the viewer would have realized that Arthur WANTED to be blind towards the obvious and that he wanted to hide. But that wasn't the case. If his father's death by the hands of magic had made him acting weird, they should have dealt with it instead of having the characters act as if Uther had never been there at all, because all was forgotten again the very next episode. We didn't see Arthur suffer from Uther's death, so this can't have been the reason. But if so, they completely failed to present it by having the boys banter and going on with their lives as if it had never been any different.

That's one of the reasons why I disagree that season four was about the characters but only about the broached elements of the Arthurian legend at the expense of character development and depth.