User blog comment:Tns31091/Arwen Haters/@comment-129.67.119.240-20111224213930/@comment-5036924-20111230151212

Whoa, whoa. Not true. Arthur and Gwen may have to get married to align with the typical Arthurian legend, but by no means are they always shown to be in love. It's not 'fate', quite often their marriage is a political arrangement, although the BBC's choice to make Gwen a servant obviously took that possibility out. They are most certainly not always a pretty fairytale - look how it ends up with Lancelot and Guinevere. Not everyone was "rooting for it to happen" either - I certainly wasn't, and even if I had been I think I would've been disappointed with the way they carried it out. It's also not about whether it starts in S1 or S2 or S3, but about how they build up to it. You can't just chuck it in through one episode with no backstory IMO.

As for Arthur and Morgana, there is no set story. There are so many variations that you can't fall back on the legend to say what's 'right'. Mordred's mother is at times Morgana, but also often Morgause, and sometimes his father is Lot.

Though none of that is actually relevant to what this blog post was about, which was why people don't like Arthur/Gwen as opposed to whether it's 'supposed' to happen. Oops.