Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140329115401/@comment-5772693-20140401152525

Thanks Fimber, though you may regret giving me the go ahead to gush over Morgana.

As for the Triple Goddess, I've never really been sure what to think about her. The show writers wanted to tell us that she was real, but (as several people have pointed out) that doesn't actually make much sense. Or at least the decisions she made, considering how powerful she is, and that she apparently knows everything, made no sense.

When watching the show I had a tendency to pretend that she didn't exist, and that everything going on was a product of the characters decisions and not hers. If she was real than it was either a case of 'evil cannot comprehend good' and never really knew how humans would react to whatever she threw at them. Or she was totally self-destructive.

As for bad vs less-bad, from what a Lurker in the woods was saying, I agree. I don't really have anything against antiheroes or a villain being the protagonist of the story (loved Megamind), but I hate it when he acts like he/she thinks he's/she's the hero.

Merlin does that. And he isn't the only one, it seems like everyone around him was constantly talking about how great he was. Most people didn't know about all the bad things he had done, but it still bothered me. Even in the last episode his defense was 'see Arthur, I've always protected you, that makes me the good guy'.

I just wish that he had admitted to getting darker and doing bad things rather than trying to pass it off as growing up. I didn't like that he acted like he had the moral high ground whenever he was confronted with an advisory, no matter the circumstances. Merlin always thought Merlin knew best. Mostly because a dragon told him so.