User blog comment:Morganaforever/Question about Guinevere and Series 5 in general/@comment-5657895-20121113002857

They got captured because Aithusa was very young and weak and Morgana was tired and injured. And besides, it's not out of the question that someone more powerful than Morgana was responsible for the capture. It might not be just an ordinary bandit, maybe they had a very powerful sorcerer helping them.

Lancelot was a shade, of course he wouldn't smirk. He wasn't programmed to have any other emotions other than to help whoever revived him.

Merlin is much stronger than Morgana, but some magic can't be dispelled so easily. Trickler was a twit and his love spell was enough to override Merlin's magic.

Uther was a king. Of course you would expect his funeral to be above that of Elyan and Lancelot. And his sacrifice didn't exactly have the far reaching consequences that Lancelot's did.