User blog comment:MerlinUSA/Merlin -- The Big Picture/@comment-5764349-20130116222339

(Some spoilers of LotR, Buffy, Angel, Chuck, Legend of Aang to make a point XD)

I'm all in favour of making a series more serious, but the problem is when they force this to a point when things stop to make sense, which in my oppinion happened to Merlin.

Fon instance, I honestly don't see how Arthur fufilled his destiny, because according to the dragon (to Merlin): "Your destiny is to protect the young Pendragon until he claims his crown, and when he does, magic can be returned to the realm." and that obviously didn't happen. True, we can say that this was more the dragon's wish, but then what was his true destiny?, reuniting Albion? So in short the big destiny that they spoke of for four seasons was accomplish between season 4 and 5, isn't that a bit strange? I mean is like The Lord of the Rings 3 started with they eating and chating about how cool was destroying the ring (and doesn't even show a flashback).

About Morgana needing no redemption, this may be true for season 3, 4 and 5 Morgana, but if you look at season 1 and 2 Morgana, she practically cries for it. In a lot of series we have the good character that becomes bad, but he always reedems himself somehow, why? Because one can't become a total psychopath from one moment to the next. Some examples of this are Willow in Buffy, Fred / Illyria in Angel, Sarah in Chuck, Zuko in Legend of Aang, etc. Now we can say that the writers tried to make something new; well in that case at least show us how exactly she turned from season 2 Morgana to season 3 Morgana, because making it happen in the gap between two seasons it's just lazy, to say the least.

All in all, it's a matter of taste. I personally didn't like the ending (and most of season five).