Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140329115401/@comment-24691863-20140407084131

''Unfortunately, it seems that most people think the opposite is true, and are more than willing to call them out on historical inaccuracies! '' I agree with Ozymandias here. Not only is there no "real" story of Merlin - there are so many versions that the creators of the BBC series have all the right in the world to invent their own - but the series actually follows through on a lot of the parts of the legend. Merlin's role, according to some of these, was to see to it that Arthur survived to become king and build up Camelot. He did so in the series. Again in the legend, Camelot didn't last long and Arthur was killed by Mordred. This too happened and though the legends don't really deal with Merlin's role in this, I thought the way the series handled it was not only plausible but very well done. That a lot of questions were left unanswered only makes it all more fascinating, doesn't it?

It puzzles me that so many contributors to the forum actually seem to dislike the series as a whole and the character of Merlin himself. Why pour so much feeling and effort into something you don't like? I'm really curious.