User blog comment:Fimber/The Grinch?/@comment-4879894-20121215020813/@comment-5102537-20121215124701

I agree with you. I haven't got a problem with goofs and minor mistakes, like beer-cans on the table in front of Hengist or Arthur wearing rubber-boots in a scene. Not even minor plotholes are so bad, such things can be overlooked easily. But when characters act contradictory and illogical, it damages the entire plot. When the overall storyline is changed into the opposite, the audience naturally will have a hard time to accept it because it feels like watching a different show. When previous plotlines are being ignored and overlooked, the viewers wonder what's this all about and get confused, hence can't believe any further development because it's built on happenings that ignore what happened before.

One of my biggest problem is that Merlin and Arthur behave like teenagers but do questionable things that sometimes are not even considered to be questionable simply because cute Merlin and cute Arthur are doing them. I can't see Merlin as the great sorcerer and Arthur as the great king when they behave like fifteen years old boys. And  can't get used to characters when I have to expect that they will be totally changed or killed off again anyway.

The Disir could have been such a great epsiode if it hadn't been for Merlin acting so illogical by telling Arthur that magic has no place in Camelot instead of dealing with Mordred later. First magic back in Camelot, then dealing with Mordred and looking behind things. What Merlin did was not only callous and cruel but also totally senseless and illogical. It's fooling the audience. Another thing that annoyed me in this epsiode is the fact that it was shown again that magic almost destroyed the land before Uther took the throne. Arthur himself mentioned it, yet we're supposed to believe that magic is so important and that Uther was an evil badass. Contradictions everywhere, from left to right, up and down and back again.