Talk:The Diamond of the Day/@comment-5621713-20130108223246

I suppose the complaints about the Diamond of the Day won't stop until all Merlin viewers see the fifth season. I agree that it could have been done a lot better, that they wasted four episodes on the pointless Evil Gwen storyline when there were so many loose ends that needed addressing. It seems to me that the writers were going on as if they had a sixth season, until they got to the Drawing of the Dark, when they realized they had only three episodes to end it all. The last three episodes seemed very rushed, like they took an easy way to turn Mordred against Arthur. It was actually The Disir that was the turning point of the 5th series, once Merlin told Arthur that there was no place for magic in Camelot, thinking that by turning down the Disir  they would leave Mordred to die. But, that was Merlin's fatal mistake,( and Arthur's too). Once Mordred was cured, Arthur's fate was sealed. I have been reading these comments since the show aired, and there have been many suggestions of ways they could have made the last episode better...many including me would have liked to have seen them vere away from the legend and let Arthur live. But, how it was written, and how it ended was never up to us. We can complain and suggest till we are blue in the face, but the show is what it is.And, I am very sorry that it has ended. They certainly had enough material to use in a 6th season. It's a shame they didn't have that chance.