Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-82.156.4.128-20121224212052/@comment-1.129.111.17-20180120094246

Whats was with that person several post above, whining about Gwen being black and a servant?

Angel Coulby is frickin' gorgeous and the chemistry she had with Colin Morgan in early Merlin was delighful and no doubt spawned a bunch of MerlinxGwen fanfic ships. Plus seeing her journey from where she was, as a servant, to being a queen was memorable. I'd rather they kept Gwen as she was, than cast a random caucasian with a different character to keep that person happy.

Also it's fine if you hate the modern day scene but to hate it because it represents a fictional show using real world context is silly. It is still a television show! Whether it's a complete fantasy world or our own doesn't really matter. I remember an episode of Xena just around World War 2 and all the people moaning about the same thing about Xena daring to use real world context when it should have stayed complete fantasy and how it ruined the immersion for them.