Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130214143847/@comment-6450015-20130223194218

The point that really confuses me about Series 1 in general is the dramatic shift in Arthur and Gwen's relationship. Looking back on this episode, Gwen expresses her feelings of who childish and mean Arthur is, and says, "Who'd want to marry Arthur?"

I got that this was the writers' way of saying, Ha look what's going to happen. But it made no sense to me at all. She despises him, and then next series falls so in love with him. This episode she only seemed focused with Merlin. (I've already mentioned they should have been a couple). Morgana will be queen, and there's no question. It just seemed so weird when I rewatched this episode.

I get that there Arwen shipers here who are going to disagree. I slowly grew to like Arwen near the middle of Series 3. But the whole start of their relationship came out of nowhere. So does anyone else think that maybe Gwen could've kind of at least admired Arthur a little bit in this episode? Seem to, well, not hate him so much, I guess.

Thoughts? Thanks!!!