User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why all this hate?/@comment-187.135.61.63-20140101011927/@comment-5102537-20140101120947

Your last sentence was indeed an insult. This is something which a few (or always the same) people are trying here regularly - they write in a seemingly polite way but insult someone nevertheless.

As for the meaning of names. Aside from the fact that despite all flaws, inconsistencies, lazy writing, weird changes of characters and massive plotholes, "Merlin" was/used to be/tried to be (most of the time) a story about ignoring differences in status, heritage and partly religion. Making Gwen someone with darker skin colour and black hair showed exactly at this. It's about overlooking visual/superficial differences.

As mentioned before, it's also a retelling which means you could change almost everything about the legend. Which is the reason why so many things were changed in this one in comparison to the well-known and most popular versions.

If you name your blond or red-haired child Pamela, people won't scold you just because Pamela means "black". A dark-haired woman can be named Bianca, even though it means "white". The name Rachel or Rahel means "ewe", and I'm quite sure that no person with this name has anything in common with an ewe/ a sheep.

And Martin Luther King was a real person in real history whereas Guinevere was only a fictional character of a legend. She could have been dark-skinned, white, red-haired, it doesn't matter at all.