User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/THE NEW MULTI-STRANDED APPROACH TO STORYTELLING- BE EXCITED/@comment-4814726-20120706030144

Of course! Multi-stranded stories in the series will be great if the writers play it right. Usually a storyteller uses cliffhangers at the end of a chapter or book or movie to get their audience hyper to see the next part of the story. B4 in Merlin, the only way you get excited for the next episode was becuz of the promos at the end of the episode. Now, we can be excited for the next episode w/out the promos becuz we'll still be seeing a continuing storyline rather than a cliche conclusion at the end of each episode. And yes, it could also mean an end to filler episodes. Lamia would've been great IF there was any plot development, but in the end it just made all the characters look stupid in the way they dealt with the problem. It wouldve been worth it if it actually led to Gwen finding out the secret atthe end there. I dont think the writers understand that that scene where she ALMOST found out but didn't didnt was like waving beef jerky in a starving dogs face and then eating it for us viewers.