User blog comment:Broman178/Should there be more Magical duels?/@comment-4879894-20120228190827/@comment-4135736-20120229093206

I also love sword fights but don't forget that this show is mainly about Merlin and his journey to become a powerful sorcerer by protecting Arthur so when I watch this show, I expect an equal amount of magical duels and sword fights, and not everything has to be realistic. The reason why I love magical duels is that they show how powerful a sorcerer like Merlin is but I wouldn't like to see a duel with just two types of magic: throwing people and objects, I want other types of magic as well. As for Morgause, she wasn't killed by Gaius, she was badly wounded by BOTH Merlin and Gaius and then in Series 4, she was killed by Morgana but I did expect her to put more of a fight between them. For Nimueh, she was just too shocked that Merlin survived her attack to defend herself, she basically allowed him to kill her. I would agree that Merlin should be a bit vunerable but not too vunerable because too much vunerability would ruin his character.