Thread:Fimber/@comment-4190137-20130104040124/@comment-5102537-20130105180203

Hey Alfons!

I'm fine, thanks. How are you doing? Still missing Alvarr? :-D  I thought about your suggestions concerning Alvarr, and even though I didn't like his character very much, I think it would have made sense if he returned. He escaped after all and there was no reason for him to hide. There would have been multiple ways to bring him back at least for one episode.

Well, the knights... I wasn't a fan of them, to be honest. I liked Gwaine when he was introduced and when he returned in "The Fisher King". Later, his role was reduced and he was made some sort of a clown which he didn't deserve in my opinion. Percival was great when he saved the children in the beginning of season four. I had to laugh about the way he looked when he had to decide between the torch and the children. It was an awesome scene. Then we barely saw anything of him. Leon was weird. At first he was Uther's first man and absolutely loyal. Then Uther was dead and suddenly Arthur was his hero. I've never figured out what he thought about magic. Supposingly, he supported the law against it but there was absolutely no depth of his character whatsoever. I never knew what he was thinking or feeling, he was just there. Elyan was similar. He didn't do anything to help his sister when Gwen was banished by Arthur. He joined the other knights in bullying Merlin, I never understood what this was all about. It simply made no sense. Then Elyan was killed off when risking his life for Gwen. First time that he did something that included more depth and poof, he was gone.

The knights were very boring to me but it wasn't their fault. The writers/show runners missed to give them good stories. Especially Gwaine was comletely wasted, in my opinion because he once was so great and fascinating. I also never understood what grudge he held against Uther. Since he also obviously supported the law against magic, he never let us know why he disliked Uther. If it was all only because Uther didn't accept him because he thought that Gwaine wasn't of noble blood, then it was Gwaine's fault. He could have told him who he really is. It was totally normal in those times that commoners weren't as accepted as royal and noble ones. So what's the fuss?

I think the knights were described as being quite immature.