User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/What do you think of 'The Trilogy of Movies'?/@comment-5102537-20120812114245

For all the Arthur and Merlin fans and those who prefer the Arthurian legend, I understand that they wish for a continuation. Personally, I wouldn't care if Merlin ended with season five because I did not enjoy season four at all, there was really nothing that even reminded me of my favourite show. I disliked the so called darkness which actually I found to be a collection of rushed cruel scenes/happenings and very cheesy situations, partly very far-fetched to serve the weird plots. And the darkness didn't compensate the tremedous simplicity of season four but created a mixture of incomprehensible situations and huge plotholes.

I think with rushing through the Arthurian legend all of a sudden, they did do no service to themselves because so many things have been overlooked and left out in the open, making the viewers wonder what in the world has happened now.

So a reboot would be a chance to show what has been ignored and left out so far. They said that if they do a reboot, it will be around Arthur and the Round Table. This I find very boring but I have hopes that some of the characters that have already left the show will return. If the reboot starts, let's say, when Morgana takes over Camelot in season three and imprisons Uther, there are possibilities to show what they ignored in season four. All the stuff around Arthur learning about his birth, for example, Lancelot, more of the knights (although I really, really could do without it), Morgana and what happened in the skipped time, more of Uther who was reduced to a side-effect in season four which I will never understand) and all that stuff.

If they started a reboot even sooner, maybe around season two, a lot of questions concerning Kilgharrah, Morgana, Morgause, Igraine, Vivienne and other kingdoms could be answered.

A continuation would only be interesting to me if they brought back Lancelot and Uther. Without them and only showing the Arthurian legend, they will lose me as a viewer for sure. I didn't start to watch Merlin to see another version of the Arthurian legend with two boys acting like 15 years old even at the age of 30 or something.

If a reboot brings back characters that have already left and if it shows stuff we haven't seen due to the totally hasted and weird fourth season and if we get to see more of Merlin, I am all for such a reboot.

Just another Round Table and Arthurian fairytale is not something I'd like to see, neither in a reboot nor as a continuation.

I want some grown-up, yet positive story with all the beloved and important characters that gives a good feeling when watching, not a bad one. However, since Colin Morgan said he wishes for a movie in Lord of the Rings-style, all my hope for a good new project is gone. It seems that our time era requires dark, brutal, drepessing and horrible stories in order to get the attention of a bigger audience. At least that is what some people seem to think.