Thread:Fimber/@comment-4190137-20130104040124/@comment-4190137-20130106005124

Hey Fimber! There isn't any fuss I just like reading your thoughts. :D

I think the problem is that after Series 4 the knights were just extras, they hardly got any lines or screen time, they were just their to show off their bodies and support Arthur in battle. I think this is a terrible move by the producers as the knights have a lot of fans and all 4 of them (not including Lancelot and Mordred) had potential to not only be very likeable characters, but very interesting characters. There was not episode centred around any of them with an exception of the episode 'A Herald of the New Age', but that episode failed to explore anything new about Elyan other than that he cannot resist dark forces.

One thing I am very disappointed about Series 4 and 5 is that the Knights were merely used as models acting like statues in Camelot. Capps and Murphy decided to focus on more irrelevant characters such as: Agravaine, The Gleeman, Aithusa (who also had potential to be a very big character), The Lamia, Lancelot's Shade, Ruadan, Sefa, The Ghost 'Uther', The Euchdag, Queen Mab, The 'Brainwashed' Guinevere, Daegal, Sarrum, Albin, Beroun, Ari, and not to mention the unnecessary excessive use of *cough* Wile. E. Coyote *cough*... I mean Morgana.

I think generally that throughout Series 1-5 that the show has had many unnecessary characters but only after Series 4 did they start affecting the screen time of others, more important characters.

Oh and yeah, I don't think Alvarr's character is anything amazing, the only depth he had was implied not shown or explained, but I think his character was left on a cliffhanger and they failed to even give him a 30 second cameo of him saving Morgana and Aithusa from captivity before being killed by one of the Amata.

Alvarr isn't the only one in the 'Pool if Forgotten Characters', Tristan, Sefa and Ragnor also haven't had their stories concluded. To me it doesn't matter if I liked them or not, just that their stories need to be wrapped up. For example Ragnor, he was as one-dimensional as any character could get but I think he should have gotten a cameo later on to conclude his character's story arc.

I think generally speaking that Series 4 and 5 puts an asterisk against the name of 'Merlin'. When someone asks me what my favourite TV shows are when I say Merlin I usually dub it the 'Old Merlin' or 'Merlin how it used to be'.