User blog comment:Morganaforever/Best series of Merlin/@comment-4135736-20120319100456

This is my rating of the seasons (as I said in my user page):

1) Series 3: This is my favourite season, most of the the episodes were epic, it foreshadowed the future of Arthur's reign, the Knight's of the Round Table were introduced, and it actually showed Merlin beginning to transform from the young humourous boy into the great wise wizard we know from the Legend as well as his older self "Dragoon the Great". My only true dislikes for this series were that it contained one of my least favourite episodes (Goblin's Gold because it was too silly), Morgause, while a great villain, was blind to Merlin's magic (I want a main villain who knows who Merlin really is), Freya's return was a dissapointment because I wanted her to fully rise from the Lake of Avalon, there wern't much magical duels with different types of magic, and Morgana was boring because her constant smirking was annoying and she showed no signs of her former self.

2) Series 4: I loved this season but the epicness from Series 3 reduced a bit which was a dissapointment for me. the things I liked about this series was that Uther finally died, Arthur and Gwen finally became King and Queen of Camelot, Morgana's character improved and she was more interesting as her smirking reduced and she showed some signs of her former self, and the Knights of the Round Table (with the exception of Lancelot) became more prominent characters. My dislikes for this series was that there was again a main villain (Morgana) who was blind towards Merlin's magic, the epicness reduced (as I said above), there were again not much magical duels with different types of magic, Lancelot was killed off too early, and it contained two of my least favourite episodes - The Wicked Day and Lancelot Du Lac.

3) Series 1: This series was okay for me because it contained a decent amount of magical duels (the duel with Merlin and Nimueh was epic), it contained some stories from the legend, there was a main villain who KNEW of Merlin's magic - Nimueh, and there were good adventures which the characters had. However I didn't like the modern appearance to the season (though it gradually reduced as the series went on), the idea of Arthur being protrayed as an immature prat as well as Merlin and Gwen being portrayed as servants.

4) Series 2: I agree with what you've said Morganaforever, this series was not as good as the others, the episodes (especially Beauty and the Beast which is my least favourite Merlin episode) were way over the top, there were no magical duels, there wern't much stories from the Legend (other than the inclusion of Freya and Morgause), Arthur fell in love with Gwen too fast and Morgana turned against Camelot a bit too quickly. The only things I liked were Morgause, Freya and the final episode - The Last Dragonlord, that was epic.