User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/Why Alvarr is such a big of a character/@comment-5102537-20120719151858/@comment-5102537-20120721124054

I don't know why he left alive. Maybe he returns and maybe he still plays a part in the show, it's just that I could do without him. The reason is that I am always extremely bored by villains, especially scheming ones and those who enjoy their evil doing, grinning, hurting others, being cold, brutal and arrogant. The questionable characters that are still humane and show their weaknesses and also good sides are interesting. But villains like Morgana, Alvarr, Cornelius Sigan, Morgause, Cenred and all the others are only driven by their hatred or hunger for power, and we don't get to see their human sides. They lack big tiime of wisdom and depth. They may be intelligent (except of Cenred) but not wise or conflicted (except Morgana whose confliction is her insanity, which is also boring to me). Such villains are much too simple and actually rather created for kids. I need insight and a sign of humanity in characters to get an interest in them, not just their evil and most of the time very stupid and childish plans. With villains like those I always feel like reading comic strips. This is one of the reasons why I don't like superhero-movies much. The villains in them are so overstated and one-dimensional that I can't even take them seriously. Whenever they appear, like the Joker, Octavius, Penguin and others, I lose my interest.

None of the villains on Merlin have ever scared me the slightest bit with the excption of Aredian. He was the only really scary villain on Merlin and for some reason I had the feeling that if he had stayed on the show there would have been a lot of potential with his character.

I cross my fingers for you and the other Alvarr fans that he returns because I know the feeling when you wish for someone to return ;-) And yes, maybe there is more to come if he returns, maybe he gets a deeper character description. I didn't see him loving Morgana or Mordred. He actually appeared to be a very selfish and uncaring person. And he only used Morgana and used her sympathy for him. His vile behaviour was quite annoying, but this is what I criticised before - most villains are only unsympathetic and one-dimensional created. Don't ask me why, maybe the writers can answer that question.