Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140405091322/@comment-24785400-20140407233709

It was a solid episode, finally they remembered that Gwen and Elyan where actually related - you pretty much knew Elyan wasn't going to make it at the end though.

I think the only reason I watched this episode is Eoin and Colin at the Cold-Con mentioned this episode as having some badly written dialogue, and yes, it wasn't the best. (I also got the impression that some of the worst bits where not included). We had this "Dark Tower" that has this creepy history, but nobody except Arthur had ever heard of it. Also the bit where they all dreamed the same thing was a bit off, it should have been creepier (or we should have seen the dreams).

A waste of a character in Queen Mab, and I was annoyed that once again, the worlds most powerful wizard gets told that he has an inner gps system (and later Morgana uses it too, without being taught),  Surely he should know all this stuff by now.

It was disturbing seeing Gwen tortured, and annoying too, that she's become more of an idea than a character, she's either there to tell Arthur how wonderful he is, or have her being the victim. That said, I liked the interaction between her and Morgana, I also liked how Merlin appeared to Gwen in her hallucinations, she's just has important to him as Arthur and Elyan, its just a pity in the later episodes they chose to forget this friendship again and have them glaring at one another, and Merlin even not sure he wanted to help her! However, and I know this is a little nitpicky thing, I thought only people with magic could hear the Mandrake screams, yet we have Gwen covering her ears at the sound.

It was good too, that you weren't really sure until the very end whether or not Morgana had succeeded.