Talk:Bedivere/@comment-1245387-20121003222533/@comment-69.171.172.99-20121004035337

I know, right? It is kinda annoying. But to be fair, it's not just BBC's Merlin that hasn't given Bedivere's character much of a role. In fact, stories have been watering down Bedivere's role for a long, long, long time. Did you know that Bedivere was supposedly the one Guinevere cheated on Arthur with but later stories (likely from a French source) replaced him with Lancelot? True, versions such as Roger Green's DO keep Bedivere in as important, as he's usually (in such versions) the one who throws Exailibur back into the lake, but generally not as many people think of Bedivere as readily as Lancelot. In Merlin, Lancelot takes his usual role as 'Guinevere's lover' (episode 9 of series four, if I'm not mistaken) and his role as "Arthur's best friend" has more or less been filled by Merlin (as they're much closer than Arthur and Lancelot in the show), so maybe there was just no room for an extended role for Bedivere.

The ONLY book that I've ever read that gives Bedivere his full role is "Here Lies Arthur" (I've heard he has the same Lancelot-ish role in "Road to Avalon" but I can't find a blasted copy of it so I haven't read it yet...)

As for Pellinore, I can KIND of understand why they cut him out with just a name-drop. In most stories, he has to do with the questing beast, but in Merlin the questing beast is more to do with Nimueh, so there was no part of Pellinore in that story.