Talk:Lancelot du Lac/@comment-70.176.234.135-20200812032054

I wasn't really a fan of the Bracelet, specifically how it was never brought up ever again. The audience knows that Gwen didn't willingly cheat on Arthur, but to every single character (other than Morgana and Agravaine), Gwen is someone who is willing to cheat on Arthur before her wedding day, while she's already happy with him.

Some may say that not all people are perfect, that they need to have inherent flaws to be more realistic and interesting, and I agree. Except that doesn't apply here. It literally wasn't Gwen's fault that she cheated on Arthur - she was enchanted. This isn't a "flaw" that makes her complex, this is just something that's objectively not her fault, yet the show pretends that she should be sorry for it.

It would've been more satisfying if (perhaps in a later episode) Merlin and Gaius discovered the bracelet, deduced that Gwen was enchanted that whole time to cheat on Arthur, and informed Arthur that both Lancelot and Gwen were not who they are and that all of it was the doing of Morgana. This would preserve these other characters perceived Gwen and Lancelot before this episode, as well as provide a satisfying foiling of Morgana's plan.