User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/'We have a traitor in our midst' - AGAIN!/@comment-5364525-20121010163625

Yeah, there are a lot of traitors, but you have to remember that Merlin is set in Medieval times, aka the Dark Ages. It's not the number of traitors that bother me, as I think it would have been all too common in that day and age. It's Arthur's blindness to them that gets me.

Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I didn't think Gwen's sentencing of Sefa was so out of line. Comparing her to Uther is rather harsh. Uther sentenced people to death for using healing poultices!

But Gwen has to take in the fact that she knew her handmaiden left the city in questionable circumstances and did nothing to stop her, unwilling to see someone so close to her as a traitor. Only in retrospect does she realize that Sefa's actions- which Gwen smiled and teased Sefa for goodnaturedly- have cost the lives of many good men, possibly even the king. Gwen is not even sure if Arthur- her *husband*- is alive or just missing somewhere with Merlin.

Not only does she face the prospect of her husband being dead, but now she also faces the prospect of ruling Camelot on her own. I'd be hard pressed to do any different!