User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/My hopes for Howard Overman's writing on his new show/@comment-5102537-20130219110725

I have no intention to watch it because I don't want to get invested in storylines and characters again that will be changed, thrown out of the window and overlooked later.

Having watched a couple of other TV shows like The walking Dead, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural and others, I'm meanwhile almost surprised that there are indeed shows that provide great stories, continuity and character consistency, even though it has always been that way and I'm actually used to it. But since Merlin I'm often expecting huge characters changes and ignored plotlines any time with other TV shows too, which is rubbish, of course.

I don't have a problem with changed mythologies. I think it was fantastic that "Merlin" was a re-telling and had its own course and take. The real problem is to change everyone and everything within this re-telling all of a sudden in order to adapt bits and pieces of other (brutal) shows like Games of Thrones or Spartacus, shows that exist of violence, brutality and blood splattering around. It's somewhat weird that a TV show like The Walking Dead, a quite violent and rentless zombie-show, emphasizes on characters and focuses on continuity and psychology much more  than a family show like Merlin. With shows like The Walking Dead or Supernatural you know what you are going to embark with. With shows like Merlin (the way they changed it), you are going to be disappointed due to false promises.