User blog comment:Merlaa/Series 5 and Ending/@comment-5102537-20120928123756

This is a good blog post :-)

Personally, I don't care anymore for another season because the show has ended for me with season three. They eliminated the previous stories and sort of started a whole new show with rushing through the complete Arthurian legend. I had wished for the original plan which was to show what happened before they get famous. Unfortunately, they just ended it all and focused on the Arthurian legend as if there was no tomorrow.

The reason why people might feel that the show ends too soon with season five (if so) may be because of this - there are still so many questions that haven't been answered, we have seen so many things that have been left uncompleted and we have to deal with actually two different main plots: Merlin, his magic and all the relationships among the characters on one side (all including Uther, Lancelot, Morgause etc...) and then the Arthurian legend with the focus on Arthur, battles and whatnot on the other. They totally failed to connect season four to the previous seasons and this leaves too much in the open. It's a bit as if you are in a restaurant and enjoy your meal. Then suddenly the waiter comes to your table, takes away your food and serves something else before you have finished the previous one. It leaves you unsatisfied.

If the story/the overall plotline of the previous seasons had been told until the end and concluded, the five seasons would at least be enough to tell a story fluently. However, the way they changed it all it feels as if the story has begun with season four and then there is only season five left and then... nothing, it's over (if so). To me it is like having watched two different shows. There is season one to three and then there is kind of a spin-off starting with season four.