Board Thread:(Re)Writing "Merlin"/@comment-5674726-20150510102753/@comment-26827245-20150727232436

Since the show seems to have aimed for a quite young audience to start with I would change a lot and set it to be a show for an older audience...

I'd keep the part where Merlin walks into Camelot but I would prolong the trek, giving more substance/backstory to Merlin than what's given in the original. I'd let Merlin do some magic and perhaps meet someone that could give some more info on Merlin. Then I'd let the execution go ahead as planned but spent a little more on the actor playing the executed's mother.

I wouldn't have let Merlin just walk up to the guards asking "Where can I find the court medic?" but rathar have Merlin meet Gaius in the market place...

I think that is what I would do. I would give each part of the story a little more flesh. A little more detail and a little more depth.