User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/THE NEW MULTI-STRANDED APPROACH TO STORYTELLING- BE EXCITED/@comment-5191335-20120726200948/@comment-121.219.104.143-20120727062503

I, myself am unhappy on how the show has dealt with the 'darkness'. I generally like shows/movies that have dark elements or plots but the way Merlin does it is so... unrealistic. Normally storytelling naturally goes dark as the end of it approaches but the Merlin producers did it in a 'forceful' way.

Like Agravaine would have been a whole lot better if he was only in 3 or 4 episodes but instead they chose for him to hold back characters such as Morgana and Arthur while giving the character as much screentime as he possibly can. Furthermore you can tell that he was only introduced to have an element to make the show 'dark' and 'multi-stranded'. And did we like that element? No. So there is no reason that reusing it in a different form would be any better.

It also opens a portal for repetetivity (as we learned from Agravaine), which does not sound good at all.

@ Loki Is Awesome: the reason people like the show 'Merlin' is because of what it has been producing over the last four years and to have a big change in the style of the show is a very risky and bold move. I agree that multi-stranded storytelling is a good way to build up a flow that would last until the end of the series but it would be unwise to have all 13 episodes dedicated to the same (it would get unoriginal after about 10) plot(s).