Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-82.156.4.128-20121224212052/@comment-207.107.99.47-20170616154300

Just finished watching the series on netflix and like many here at the end I was like "WTF was that"

now prophecy plays a big role in the show and like all prophecies they come true but never how we expect them too. in this case two seemingly conflicting prophecies (arthur bringing about the greatest age of avaalon and mordred killing arthur). both prophecies are fulfilled but I was not.

the last half of the 5th season was like a chore for me. everytime i saw morgana all I could do was think "why are you still alive" and "where do you keep finding armies willing to do your bidding"  then the whole evil gwen thing like "here we go again another corrupted character close to arthur sneaking out at night to scheme with morgana"

All I wanted was Morgana to die... saving Arthur requires a sacrifice... the dragon offers himself up then a little blurb about how Merlin and Arthur brought about peace and died of old age before the fall of Camalot or as a result of the fall of Camalot either would be fine.

knowing what I know now I would probably not have started watching it and I dont think I would recommend it either... maybe its still too fresh but while I know the typical happy ending is not what many people want it was the ending I wanted for this series.

for a show that was as light hearted as it was I dont think the twisted sad ending was necessary