Board Thread:(Re)Writing "Merlin"/@comment-5674726-20150818201631/@comment-24762954-20150917154345

It seems to me that both of you have just made the same "mistake" as the writers - were you seriously considering showing transition from the Dark Ages to something more modern in "Merlin"? Even if it wasn't a family show the idea is still bad.

As we speak of it, S1E10 is actually about not sending an army to foreign country - the one that does not exacly treat its residents well - but training those people to fight at least a battle. "Merlin" probably, shoudn't raise such questions and entire S1 had less than innocent themes.

I doubt anyone would treat such parts seriously(actually, as I think of it, series where King Arthur and Great Merlin really solve any of more or less important dilemmas would be propaganda), so the best you could hope for is some one-dimensioal villianous noble bearing some grudge against new knights(and maybe that they should have done).