Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140329115401/@comment-203.206.97.137-20140401233458

I know what you mean about Morgana, Areanna123. I know I liked her more than I was supposed to and wanted a redemption for her far more than the show did. She had the potential to be a really interesting multi-faceted character that the show-runners seemed to  shy away from.

''Regarding Triple Goddess and Disir - why are they Merlin's and Arthur creators/masters/gods? It's not like Britain was monotheistic. Where are the other celtic gods by the way? Perhaps some of them created the destiny. ''

I wish I knew the answer to that! For a show that in its early days steered clear of being religious, we had High Priestess's who we find out were at war with the Kings (why?) and created horrible things like the Formarrah and the Lamia to aid their fight? (why where they almost always female in fighting the Kings?). Yet Merlin was born of the "old religion" and thats where his magic came from. There simply wasn't enough backstory given to this situation for us to understand.

I do think the writers got themselves into a horrible tangle without realising it, they wanted Arthur as the Hero, but he never actually did anything. They wanted Merlin as his secret magical buddy, operating in the shadows, cutting of threats before Arthur was aware of them, which kept Arthur in the dark about everything. (I remember a statement on a blog from someone who was part of the show, saying that the viewers had it all wrong, Merlin wasn't supposed to the hero, Arthur was - this was something that changed along the way too). In an effort to make it "darker" a term they loved to use, they had Merlin become more ruthless and hard, but in doing so, they had to make the villains worse (Kara is a case in point - she had all good reasons to be against all Arthur stood for, but then to undermine her arguments, they made her try and stab him)   All the show-runners seemed to focus on that Camelot was a "failure" it was ultimately doomed, but for different reasons than the ones they gave us here. There is a reason that King Arthur, Merlin and the others became Legends, they achieved things - but what did they achieve in this version?