Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5729782-20121111105405/@comment-5621713-20121120191435

First, I really hope that series five is not the end of the whole series...they really have a good thing here, and it would be a shame to end it since there is so much more they can do. If it is the end, then I totally agree with you, there is so much other material that needs to be covered, or uncovered, and this four episode arc would be too much time focused on just one thing.

I didn't really think that Arthur was responsible for Morgana's imprisonment. I was just trying to figure out how Morgana so quickly broke Gwen when all we saw was Gwen standing strong against her. I absolutely hate this Gwen Morgana scenario. I always loved Gwen for being so centered, so strong no matter what came her way, and she always stood by Arthur, no matter what, even when she was banished. To see her so callously trying to kill the love of her life makes my skin crawl...but I guess that is what the writers are trying to do. One of the things that is so wonderful about this show is no matter how evil the enemies are, and how bad it looks for one of our heroes, good always wins, and that good is usually Arthur, Merlin, Gwen, and Giaus. I hate the sound of there being two more episodes before this is resolved. Four episodes on what should have been two max, is too much.

I did realize something that I was sort of forgetting, that maybe you other fans weren't. The enchanted mandrake root amplifies the deepest inner fears and conflicts. I suppose the writers were telling us that Gwen's deepest fear or repressed fear is that all the people she cares about really don't care for her, or take her seriously. That must be so if she was able to believe something that seems so far fetched. Morgana didn't plant those hallucinations, they were Gwen's deepest fears. And, that in it's self seems strange, because she had no problem telling Uther or Agravaine her thoughts, and seemed quite comfortable acting as regent whenever Arthur was gone, which seems like every other day from what we see.

It's going to be a hard two weeks waiting for this theme to be done with!