Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131103103427/@comment-4190137-20131106120328

Well well well, if it isn't the beginning on Merlin's fall from grace. This episode was a big blah for me, it was all a prime example of the producers making Merlin a wannabe-dark show.

What mainly irritated me about this episode was the godforsaken time-gap, pure laziness in writing. Where did Morgana's magic powers came from? She didn't just eat a magic mushroom and turned all goth Bellatrix didn't she?

This episode had so much potential, I liked Morgause's return, but I didn't like the lack of explanation on why she had to be sacrificed. Why was Morgause sacrificed opposed to some random man walking down the street?

I also didn't like AGRAVAINE ! Boy what a hell of a waste of a character he was, he was not only a repeat of Morgana in Series 3, but a boring one-dimensional villain with absolutely NO back-story. He was one of the main factors of why I detested Series 4 so much (I thought it was batsh** until I saw Series 5). Why was Agravaine helping Morgana and against Arthur?

As for the story line, pretty dull in my opinion, took Merlin 2 minutes to travel to the impair Isle of the Blessed in Series 1, and it took the Knights of the Round Table 45 wasteful minutes to get to the reformed version of it. Why was the Isle of the Blessed all of a sudden a fortress?

Not only that, there was very little character development on the journey, let alone progress to the overall story in general. So to me, so to me, it was a very wasteful double episode in my opinion. Why did it need to be a two-parter?

If you exclude the events in the time-gap, this episode made little progress to the story aside from killing off various characters. I truly wish this was the Revival of the Witch  [Nimueh] instead. :(

Sorry for the rant, but hey, it's my opinion, my two cents, take it or leave it.