Talk:Guinevere Pendragon/@comment-150.254.73.222-20130518133639/@comment-5674726-20130523000759

''It's a shame that we never really saw what the court thought of the way the kingdom was run, either by Uther or Arthur. It makes it hard to see all the problems regarding status and society and gives us only a very naive perspective and the point of view of the main protagonists. Which is why the viewers tend to believe and accept so many things so easily, I guess.''

I agree that it's a shame that they didn't develop the court more. They had such scope to show Arthur's journey to becoming the King he intended to be but they abandoned conflict and relied on time jumps to tell us that things were great in Camelot. Had they let the nobles be a powerful group in their own right, with their own agendas, agendas that would sometimes conflict with Arthur's way of doing things, it would have been a challenge for Arthur to balance doing what he thinks is right or what he wants to do with the need to keep the support of the nobles, without which he will be left very vulnerable.

Instead, the nobles roll over as needed, accepting a gang of commoners being knighted and a servant becoming Queen without a murmur of protest. Imagine how much more powerful a storyline it could have been if Arthur had had to fight to have his decision to abandon the First Code of Camelot accepted by the nobles, or if he had been put in a position where he couldn't marry Guinevere because the weight of public opinion was against him - given that it's bound to have become known why the wedding was cancelled and Guinevere was banished, one would expect that even among the commoners, a sizeable majority would deem her unfit to be Queen.