Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-209.196.232.2-20121230195253/@comment-5102537-20130206204929

"How would anyone know this but the creators? I never heard anything like that. Although I knew from two years ago that the writers said they had the ending planned before they even started, I never read anything more detailed than that."

The producers said it, the actors said it numerous times and the press wrote about it too. You once said that you didn't watch Merlin when it started but that you started to watch it later when you saw the bromance between Merlin and Arthur. I have watched Merlin from the very beginning when it first aired because I was in London at that time. I read almost everything about it, saw every comment on the DVDs and in Youtube videos from conventions and whatnot. I suppose almost every fan can confirm to you that it was always said that the show was about the early years before they get famous. I recommend you do the research on the internet because I won't look for every interview or article that's maybe five or four years old. Anthony Head also said that once Arthur is king, the show will be over - and this was when season three started.

It's not only about what the creators or the actors said but also about what we saw within the story, on the very show.

I know that you see it all from the perspective of a same-sex relationship and as a homosexual. That's totally fine, yet it's not what was shown to us before the finale. Of course you like the ending since the relationship between Arthur and Merlin was the only thing that you were interested in, as you stated on your own blog. But it wasn't what the story was about.

Let me put it this way: do you really think that a thousands of years old dragon tells Merlin that his fate and destiny is to fall in love with another man? Would it make any sense that the Fisher King who "lived" for hundreds of years, waiting for the "Once and Future King" and for the greatest sorcerer of all to finally give the gift ( the water of the lake of Avalaon)  that he treasured for Merlin for hundreds of years only for Merlin to fall in love with another man? And is it of any importance and/or logic that Merlin's "fate that has been written since the dawn of time" (!!!) was only to fall in love and confess his love to another man?

I'm sorry but nobody can ever convince me that Albion, thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives, are unimportant but that the only thing that counts is that the greatest sorcerer of all times finally confesses his love to and receives the love from another man. If the show was about gay love, the finale way overstepped the line by telling us that gay love (or straight love) is a holy thing that even requires the forces of the universe to give this fate to a sorcerer. It would tell us that gay love is the most important thing of all, more important than anything else, a sacred thing that stands above all when even the gods and goddessess and the very powers of nature particularly create a human that spreads the word of homosexuality and liberates all homosexuals, regardless what happened and will happen with everyone else.

If they simply wanted to tell a love story, whether between two men, two women or between a man and a woman, they should have done that without all the fate and destiny stuff, without the dragon as Merlin's advisor, without goddesses that demand obedience, High Priestessess and all that. They simply should have told a story about two characters slowly falling in love with each other, whether in medieval times or in modern times or in prehistorian times, I don't care. But this show, "Merlin", was about a destiny and fate that dealt with the unification of Albion, with peace in Camelot (even though they had peace for decades under Uther's reign), with restoring magic. This is not just wishful thinking or blindness. It is what the show told us and what it was build upon.

If I tell a story about a meteor hitting earth and for several seasons the characters try to avoid the catastrophy, I just can't tell in the end that person x simply confesses their love to person y and everything else is suddenly not important anymore, leaving the viewer wondering what the hell is now going on. I have to conclude the story, I have to let the audiencs know if earth was or will be saved or be destroyed. And if I tell a story about a future that can't be altered, about a fate that can't be changed, I can't change it in the finale and say "hey, just go with the flow, it actually was all crap because it has always been about a love story only".

If Merlin and Arthur were really gay, even though just weeks before the finale the producers said that they weren't, it could have been a sublot. That's okay. However, this was never the main plot. No gay love, no brotherly love. It was what defined Arthur and Merlin but it wasn't the story. Yet they made it the whole story subsequently by ignoring everything that happened before. And this is why so many fans are so annoyed and angry.