User blog comment:Morganaforever/Episode Review: The Disir/@comment-68.127.28.111-20121104101951

The only thing about that episode that was any good was the acting. Otherwise, it made absolutely no sense. If Merlin wants Mordred dead, then he should just kill him. He could easily make it look like an accident, or just 'force choke' him or something.

Regarding the dragon, he has always been right. He told Merlin to let Morgana die. He didn't, and ended up making her evil. He told Merlin to let Mordred die. He didn't, and now he's going to kill Arthur. Even in this episode, the dragon told Merlin to kill Mordred, not make a bunch of uninformed assumptions and advise Arthur to keep magic banned! I'm sure the dragon's thinking "WTF? THIS is what you took away from our conversation?  Are you retarded or something?"

On the other hand, I don't know why the dragon doesn't just off Morgana and Mordred himself if it's that important.

Why is the writing on this show so miserably bad? They have amazing actors - this could have been one of the best shows of all time. And the problem with this season is that they've gone dark, but with horrible writing and senseless plots, so all they've succeeded in doing is killing the goofy charm the show used to have. On the other hand, Colin Morgan has gotten so unbelievably hot that it burns my eyes when I look at him, so there's at least that in compensation.