Thread:Fimber/@comment-5139779-20120814115133/@comment-5102537-20120816113207

I agree with you. They brought Lancelot back to bring in the drama of the love triangel but I think it was done very lazy and that it contained some plotholes. To kill off Lancelot was another bad idea. I don't understand why Kilgharrah knew that Lancelot was the bravest and noblest of all knights when he obviously thought at that point of time that Merlin was going to sacrifice himself. Lancelot's bravery and his noble mind was most of all shown when he closed the veil because we havent seen other situations with him to make Kilgharrah know about him and his oustanding qualities. So this indicates that Kilgharrah knew what Lancelot was about to do... so why was he sad when Merlin planned to sacrifice himself? The dragon obviously knew that Lancelot would take Merlin's place. Very weird.

I miss Lancelot, he was the only knight I could take seriously and who really acted like a knight in such a show/legend. The other knights of the Round Table act more like school boys, and I can't see any nobility in the fact that they let Arthur kill defenceless Caerleon without objection or even without any doubts. They are bullying Merlin and bantering like a football team from highschool on their camping vacation.

Actually, I don't have such a big problem with Lancelot being disgraced because I still hope that this misunderstanding will be clearified in the next season. They HAVE to refer to Lancelot again, it can't be that he is completely forgotten now. But I'm having a problem with the fact that Merlin didn't even suspect magical interference for one second when Lancelot and Gwen kissed each other. He knew that Morgana had resurrected Lancelot and that he was a shade, so why didn't he think of the possibility that THIS was the very reason why Morgana had brought him back? When Elyan tried to kill Arthur, Merlin investigated because he suspected him to be posessed. But when Gwen does something unusual, he does not? It doesn't matter if he believed that the kiss was a sign of the love Gwen still had for Lancelot, because the very fact that Lancelot was brought back by magic and most of all by Morgana to set her evil plans into action actually should have been enough for Merlin to know that there is something going very wrong.

I won't even ride on Arthur's way too exaggerated reaction and his threat to kill his one and only love if she ever returns to Camelot. That was so ridiculous.

I think that the writers/producers don't treat their characters kindly or logically.

Imagine what Uther went through ever since Igraine had died. This (admittedly questionable) character suffered for almost 30 years and died a painful death after suffering even more. It was like a Wagner-opera or something but certainly not the once so great show called Merlin. I guess they didn't want the one who killed even (magical) children and who started the Great Purge, to be the hero by saving the land from the dorocha. So they let him suffer beyond belief to show some weird sort of "justice".... Not my taste, to be honest. They could have done without having him killed children and could have given him some redemption instead of making him die like an animal and having the sun shining behind Arthur to show everyone that now he is finally gone and got what he deserved. That was distasteful.