User blog comment:Emily Windsnap/Review for Arthur's Bane Part 2/@comment-4135736-20121015120834

I loved this episode, I was glad that Gwaine this time was true to his character from Series 3, he was no longer the background comic character back in Series 4: The Darkest Hour (although I was disappointed at how easily he got defeated in Arthur's Bane: Part 1). I loved the confrontation between Arthur and Morgana at the very end (I also liked how Morgana didn't give a damn about Merlin, just throwing him aside and focusing on Arthur again), it was brilliant how Arthur was the first character in the show to even point out how kind and compassionate Morgana was back in Series 1 and 2 because he knew her the most, I hope to see more Arthur-Morgana scenes this season as I was disappointed that they only had one scene in Series 4. Gwen was also brilliant in this episode, I was glad that she wasn't really going to execute Sefa otherwise if she did, it would have made her no different to Uther. That little alien like creature, or the Diamair, played a good role as well although I still think it was too random to be in this show.

Mordred's role was good in this episode as well, I personally think he is a much better character than Morgana, I wasn't even expecting that he would save Arthur's life, but I'm glad he turned against Morgana and saved Arthur, otherwise we would have had yet another enemy within the walls of Camelot. My only problem about Mordred in this episode was that I expected Merlin to ask him whether he had forgiven him for his "betrayal" back in Series 2: The Witch's Quickening because at the moment they are getting along fine.

My other problems with this episode were - 1st: I personally didn't like Aithusa's role in this episode (How the hell did Morgana know her name if she couldn't speak?), it didn't explain how she got separated from Kilgharrah and I didn't like the way she attacked Merlin (didn't she even recognise him as the person who hatched her, although she was a baby when she last saw him), but I was glad Merlin managed to control her. 2nd: why was Ruadan in league with Morgana, where were his reasons, other than wanting to bring magic back to Camelot, he was almost like Agravaine. 3rd: how did Morgana suddenly get her magic back when she was stripped off her powers back in Series 4.

Other than those, it was overall a brilliant episode.