User blog comment:OneofthePendragon94/Irrelevant hatred toward Gwen,overrated Morgana and underrated Merlin./@comment-5659316-20121105194846

I agree with all you have said!

People need to stop hating on Gwen/Angel. I will admit, when I first heard that Guinevere was black on the show Merlin I was like "That's different, I wonder if it's going to be like a spoofish Arthurian show, since they usually don't have such race diveristy in English/Welsh fairytale shows/movies," but when I saw her acting I thought she was really good, espeically as the show went on and her character devoloped. And I like how they've just gone ahead and made the cast diverse, all different races (Lancelot doesn't look particularly English, for example), it adds to the fantasy feel of it, with the dragons and everything. It's a fairy-tale, people! Not a supposedly historical take on King Arthur. If you want THAT, go watch the Clive Owen version and leave BBC Merlin to those of us who appreicate the show for what it is!

And people complaing that Gwen's not blonde are retarded. I'm sorry, they just are. Gwen is NOT always blonde. Yes, in a lot of stories she was, but there are many versions, even CLASSIC versions, where she has dark hair. Even in T.H. White's Once and Future King she has black hair. Keria Knightly, who played the "historical" Guinevere wasn't blonde, either.

And yes, Katie (Morgana) IS beautiful! but that doesn't make Gwen ugly. They are both different KINDS of pretty. Morgana looks more like Snow White and Gwen has like a Brandy-as-Cinderella kind of beauty. Most of the girls on Merlin are also pretty (Freya, Elena, Viven, Mithian, even Lamia wasn't exactly a troll in her human form); that doesn't make Gwen ugly by comparison.

And I agree with you about Morgana's character too. She didn't suffer THAT bad, I'm not downplaying what she went through, but compared to Merlin (and, yes, Gwen) she went through the least suffering from Uther's end. I'm sure it hurt when he denyed she was his daughter and that she feels he "killed" the man she believed was her father most of her life, but she still had his protection, a luxury Gwen and Merlin never had, being treated like worthless servants.

Also, I LOVE that picture in your blog post here of Angel/Gwen as Serafina from The Golden Compass!