Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5.150.67.7-20140602180433/@comment-26827245-20150729125619

The show grew until it no longer fit the original thought. That is my guess. It started out fairly simple but the demand for complexity grew as the story itself did. I fear the staff around the show didn't have to ability to do the show justice.

This happens to loads of story tellers. Especially those who devote themselves to long runners like George R R Martin and the late James Oliver Rigney (Robert Jordan). Suddenly the creator is faced with a story that has outgrown him/her and bad things start to happen to the story. The story teller doesn't have the mind/force to make anything great out of it. It has grown too much and spread its wings too wide.

In the case of Merlin they simply were forced to cut corners and end story lines abruptly. And this was done together with a not small ammount of incompetense. Sadly.

1. Always do what you promise your audience that you will do. Everything less is unacceptable.

2. Give your story the treatment it deserves. Never cut corners. Never give in to idiocy!

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