User blog comment:MerlinUSA/Merlin -- The Big Picture/@comment-5102537-20130120143649/@comment-5995315-20130121010057

So to sum up your point,  Merlin was never about the relationship between Arthur and Merlin, but rather a quest to legalize magic and bring about Albion? Since  you don't like the last two seasons, am I right to think you won't be voting for Merlin or Colin Morgan for the BTA award?

In the U.S. Merlin has never been a children's show. In fact, it doesn't air before 10:00 p.m. It was treated as an adult fantasy from the start, and both the emphasis on magic and the bromantic innuendo would have been enough for many parents to forbid their children from watching it. Those two things alone make it an anti-Christian program about Satan worship for too many viewers here. The BBC must have had different standards of judging it.

Regardless, once parents in the UK saw the turn you say happened at season 4 they had no excuse for letting their kids continue watching the show. So for them to complain now gets little sympathy from me. And actually, the season 3 was as horrifying as anything else, seeing that it was the story of Morgana turning into an evil witch. And that was okay for children? Or what about the very first episode in which a man is publicly executed? You call that children's entertainment?

Okay, about the point of the show, we'll defer to the dragon and the prophets. I agree they foresaw Arthur as the greatest king, one who would bring about Albion, and that Merlin's job was to help Arthur become that king. So far, so good. But they said many other things. Spcifically, the dragon told Merlin he and Arthur were "two sides of the same coin. "  In what sense did he mean that? In season 2 the dragon goes into a long disquisition on the power of love. What was that? A plot hole? I don't think so.