Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140308144416/@comment-5102537-20140322124232

Merlin After wrote: As always the episode went very quickly and left a lot of questions but isn't that true of the whole series and isn't that one of the things that make it so intriguing? Hi MerlinAfter and welcome!

I agree that to some fans the open questions may be a part of their interest in the show.

Personally, I didn't like it at all. The rushing through the episodes and essential questions that were never answered made the last two seasons execptionally boring and sometimes even annoying to me. It's like starting a puzzle and never being able to finish it because pieces are missing.

I also agree with Areanna123. To me it seemed as if there were a few ideas about certain situations and comments that the characters were supposed to make, and then the rest of the plot was created around it. Forced, so to speak. Like, for example, if I had the idea of Merlin teleporting into the vaults and saying "abracadabra!". And the entire story of the episode will be created in order to make Merlin teleporting into the vaults, no matter if the rest is illogical and ridiculous. Instead of thinking about a believable story out of which situations arise, I would have just one idea and force the plot and characters into it. First the one situation and then the story instead of first the story and then particular situations. Usually, situations and character behaviour is the consequence of what is happening, but here and in many other episodes especially of seasons four and five, the story seemed to be assimilated to the characters instead of the characters being integrated into the story, or even better, the characters' actions and behaviour developing from it.