User blog:Broman178/Should there be more Magical duels?

For some reason, I really dislike the idea the idea of Merlin keeping his magic a secret from almost everyone because opportunities to explore his powers, especially in a magical duel are missed out. So far the best magical duel in the show was the battle between Merlin and Nimueh in the Series 1 finale because that showed real power between the two and different types of magic. After that, magical duels became a joke because Merlin, most of the time, either throws his opponents or throws objects at them and his enemies do exactly the same, no other powers (The first magical fight with Merlin and Morgana was an example). I also think that there havn't been that much magical duels in the show, in Series 1, Merlin fought Edwin Muirden, Tauren, Kilgharrah and Nimueh (that was okay for me), in Series 2, Merlin didn't fight anyone (I wanted Merlin to fight Cornelius Sigan and the troll but that didn't happen), in Series 3, Merlin fought the Goblin, the Sidhe Elder and Morgause (number of fights was okay) and in Series 4, Merlin fought Morgana and the Lamia (I expected Merlin to fight the Cailleach but she wasn't evil so that wouldn't happen).

What do you think, should there be more magical duels in the show from Series 5 with MORE magic instead of the repeated throwing people and objects at each other?