User blog comment:Darkzod/Series 4 lacked the consistency from the other series'/@comment-74.115.0.2-20120702193508

I couldn't agree more. Season 4 seemd to me like a succession of trivialities overinflated into seemingly important plots and happenings. The lovestory of Arthur and Gwen was not only uninteresting but also very shallow. It was out of question that they would be together in the end but here it wasn't even thrilling to see how they would come together again. I couldn't understand Arthur's reaction from the beginning, it was done in such an excessive dramatical way that all the tension whooshed away again. Season 4 lacked big time of subtile and eloquent character behaviours as well as of consistency. Everyone had changed all of a sudden, I didn't recognize the show again. It was only darker because of the character deaths, the most terrible thing they had done for this show. Continuing it without those who were most important either for the show, like Uther, or for the legend, like Lancelot, was disappointing and not a bit interesting. This season was made for those who haven't seen the previous ones because it rarely referred to them and amost every story was ended in the beginning of season 4 just to make way for an entire new show. This season felt like having made a time jump 10 years into the future without any explanation about what happened before. When season 3 ended, there was so much potential for more great stories, yet they chose to hasten through the Arthurian legend in just one season.

Agravaine could have been a great benefit to the show if they had at least explained why he was so devoted to Morgana. Nobody knows why he was so keen to have her on the throne and his character ended the way it was introduced, with no backstory and without explanations.

The deaths of the characters were done to surprise us and to avoid much too predictable stories, alas it was a terrible surprise that didn't help the plots but let the show go downhill. It was like taking bricks out of a house that leave big holes in the walls.

It's all divided into extreme things with sudden changes of characters, tremendously rushed storis and a crazy villain that could have jumped right out of hell to rule the world with demons. Nothing was right in season 4 but everything was strange and naively done.