Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20140217120328/@comment-5102537-20140306144129

Ozymandias v wrote: Being new to the fandom, I guess I'm still just trying to find some explanation why a show with so many obvious faults has captured my heart so completely. Probably because the show used to be so exceptionally promising. Personally, I gave up on it after the first four epsiodes of season four already because it was quite obvious what direction the show was going to take. However, the viewers had still hope to see at least a bit of what they had expected after the great ride they had with the first three seasons. Stretching the secret of Merlin's powers even beyond the limit was the biggest part of the plan to keep the audience curious about how it will all end. And after having killed off several important characters, a lot of fans wanted to know what fate Arthur will have to face - will he live or die? Then the enormously disappointing finale arrived and the fans couldn't believe what they had just seen, so they're trying to bring logic and sense into the chaos while they remember the storyline of the first seasons which doesn't fit the final season anymore.

The atmosphere, the story and the characters of the previous seasons had captured the hearts of the fans and they weren't willing to let go of it since they didn't get what they were supposed to get.