User blog comment:Fimber/When family is what destroys you/@comment-4879894-20121120220905

First of all congrats for the effort. Your posts are always (at least for me) welcome. Great thoughts, nice writing. Nevertheless, I think the real failure of the show stands between what you wrote and a sentence of Morganaforever : "Arthurian Legends is full of treachery, incest, murders". The writers have been entitled to deliver a family show. This implied to keep outside some major plotlines of the legend : the adultery and the incest ; but, on the other hand, they didn't want to exclude completly these plotlines, that's why they made some debatable choices : in the beginning of the show, they teased the viewers by the ambiguous relationship between Arthur and Morgana (I'm not sure if a kid would understand these subtleties) ; by enchanting Gwen and bringing back Lancelot as a shade, they set up an adultery that was not an adultery, but... was an adultery ; the worse are the several murders - with or without blood, a murder is a murder. There is kind of hypocrisy in such processes, and, as far as we know, it had seriously affected the consistency of the whole show (characters, relationships, etc.)

Actually, The producers are the writer's doom and Merlin's doom then, as the writers were obviously not able to complete the challenge.

In fact, it seems that the staff was not daring and adventurous enough to think that it was possible to set up for everybody a vision of the arthurian legends without all this hypocrisy and twisted plots. The Bible is full of treason, murders, adultery and incest, and the jews give their children this book to read and to learn it by heart.