Talk:Royal Round Table/@comment-96.242.179.217-20130819055430/@comment-5674726-20130819222131

It's rather ironic that the Round Table, supposedly the great equalizer, is reserved for Arthur, his Queen and the knights. Merlin, the servant, is relegated to standing in the background. Gaius is the only other person I remember sitting at it. Even the members of the Council who served Uther, and Arthur in Season Four, don't seem to have merited a seat; it looks like they lost their jobs and, with the exception of Gaius and Guinevere, Arthur stuck to his knights for his new Council. One would imagine that the nobles who were booted out of the inner circle must have been more than a little miffed about that.

On another show, I'd think that it was a rather clever bit of foreshadowing that Albion was never going to be. The idea of the Round Table is good but, in practice, it's just a different seating arrangement for Arthur's chosen favourites.