User blog comment:Knightofthecart/A lesson in writing or how to recycle old schemes/@comment-4623180-20121118113212

I wholeheartedly agree. What on earth is going on? Where is Aithusa? Why is Mordred standing around? What happened to uniting Albion? Where is everyone??? Dragon plotlines? How on earth are they going to fit on the stuff they promised in interviews in the last few episodes?!

Instead, it's all focused on horribly recycled plots with extremely repetitive elements, that are predictable and make me want to punch the screen. I have never actually gone off like this before.. it's a real change for me. But this episode, I don't even want to watch it again. (I usually go over and over- so far the main ones I watch over are Arthur's Bane, Part two, Death Song of Uther Pendragon and The Dark Tower- they were amazing)

Another thing...

It seems Morgana is more powerful than Merlin when it comes to ageing spells. He needed a potion and it doesn't last as long. She's outdone him again!

Also the scene with Gwen accusing Merlin, reminded me of The Witchfinder episode, and the troll episode, where the queen accused Merlin.