Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131130132300/@comment-5772693-20131202205520

I agree completely with Fimber.

I wasn't a big Uther fan, though I did find his character interesting, and probably one of the best on the show. Even I was troubled by Arthurs apparent lack of grief. And I always hated the scene with the knights picking on Merlin.

While I enjoy a bit of humor, Merlin focused on jokes that weren't really funny a lot of the time. The plot shouldn't be sacrificed so often for bromance and childish pranks. If you can balance the two than fine, go ahead, but they didn't even try most of the time.

This episode was very easily forgotten for me though altogether. I didn't even remember the Borden guy. The only thing that really caught my attention was Aithusa. I was intensely curious about her after she was hatched, and hoped to see a lot more scenes with her.

Did the creators originally have some big plot for her(or him) that got put to the side? Why was she/he even added? I mean I love her/him and everything, but Aithusa always left me confused. I mean they never even explained the dragons gender. I liked that Morgana got a friend, but I wonder what happened to Aithusa after the season five finale.

I completely threw the whole prophecy thing out of the window. No matter how you try to fit in, it just didn't happen. Most of the prophecies that did end up happening only did so because Merlin knew about them and started meddling.

I wish they had explained the old religion versus the new religion thing better.