Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-82.156.4.128-20121224212052/@comment-67.223.11.159-20170910032312

Our family just finished this series and all of us were SO disappointed. Thank you to all the posters on this thread. I had to read something to just help me process how utterly disappointed we all were with this.

I completely agree with what many have said regarding the appearance that they had a sixth season in the works but suddenly found out they had 3 episodes to wrap it up.

Someone above wrote, "What in the world was wrong with these writers to just willfully destroy their own story and disrespect the art they created and those who enjoyed it?" Bingo! That just about sums it up.

The whole story was family-friendly, "Good Guys Win," yet with deep character development and enjoyable surprises. We would all laugh about how Gaius would ALWAYS say some version of "Merlin, be careful" but we still just LOVED it. So many episodes repeated the same overall plotline but still added enough interest and surprises and. . and just plain fun entertainment! It was a family fun tradition for several months, to get through the whole series!

So, we have spent several months hearing our kids ask happily, "Is this a Merlin night?!" Any time we parents answered "yes," we knew that we were signing up for a happy ending--there was always the fear of what Morgana would do NEXT TIME, but for each little episode / double episode, the good guys would win, we would all smile.

So, with that experience, it did not OCCUR to any of us that a series with a "happy ending / make you feel good / family" tone for almost every episode would end the whole series on a tragedy.!

We are angry and disappointed around here. Feel like we didn't get what we paid for. The artists who wrote this really messed up and disregarded their fan base. I didn't choose to watch this with my family (and KEEP watching it with my family) so that I could have some artsy experience of grief and loose ends and wondering and blech. Nothing wrong with that style, but it is just NOT WHAT WE SIGNED UP FOR with this series. We signed up for happy endings, for having the writers deliver on what they promised. So many unkept promises by the writers:  Not getting a SINGLE episode of Merlin practicing magic more freely in Camelot was one of the many, many disappointments.