Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140426100805/@comment-24785400-20140428024048

Poor  Gwen never gets a good rap in the legends. I am thankful that they didn't go down the path of blaming Gwen for Camelots downfall, as many older stories do (I mean, Lancelot was a entirely invented character who was added in later). When I first started watching the series, I thought we were going to get a sort of rags to riches, or she becomes the "People's Princess" storyline for her. But, as with the knights, she comes into the story, serves her purpose, and is put back in the background. What did the people think about having a ex-servant for a Queen? I would have loved to have seen how she handled the transition. The show has a habit of raising issues,  not just for Gwen, but for the knights too, and then sort of leaving them hanging. We have Arthur knighting commoners, bringing in the Round Table, (a symbol of equality) Gwaine with his noble parentage (not to mention the whole symbolic thing we got of Courage, Strength and Magic) only for them to be forgotten, and so they don't really mean anything in the long run.

The word I was looking for earlier, I think was Legacy, Camelot and Arthur leaves a lasting legacy in the legends. So I'm with a lot of people in wanting to see what happens with Gwen after Arthur's death, did the Round Table live on? Did Merlin come back and help her bring in the Golden Age and unite Albion in the way he didn't do with Arthur? How does she rule, does she continue ruling as Arthur did in Uthers wake? I'd love to think that she does what he couldn't, that Merlin was by her side. But everybody has different ideas.

I don't know why she'd expect Gwen to side with her, when Morgana had betrayed their friendship first

Good point, but, as many people have pointed out, Morgana was selfish with a skewed sense of entitlement. (and that was when she was "good"