User blog comment:MerlinUSA/Merlin -- The Big Picture/@comment-5102537-20130120143649/@comment-5933518-20130122005356

In my point of view, the show was about Merlin's and Arthur's youth and all the characters connected to them. I didn't really expect the series to be ended like the legend, it felt too rushed. Neither did I expect them to be ended with the Arthur's coronation. I admit I thought it'd end happily, with magic returning to Camelot,  Guinevere as Queen  and  Arthur as a King and with Merlin by his side. They were young! The rest of the legend would be left to our imagination. Also, when I was watching the fourth series, I thought that the magic reveal would have taken place in the last episode. But that didn't happen.

Neither did I hate the final nor did love it. I felt it rushed, that's all. All the things which we have been waiting for from the first series, suddenly happened in the very last episode. Particularly the magic revelation. But I have overcomed it and I actually watch episodes from the previous seasons without any problem. All the series were awesome after all.

Concerning the relationship between Merlin and Arthur, I knew from the beginning that we would see a friendship between them. Firstly, the dragon said that Merlin had to protect that "idiot" and secondly, I knew the legends. And we really saw their  initial antipathy  gradually  becoming friendship and bromance. It was too obvious in the first series in the Poisoned Chalice that they cared about each other. The show was about Merlin and Arthur's relationship because that's how they started and since the show narrated their youth, they obviously had to show their relationship and its development until it'd have become  the friendship we'd been familiar with from the legends. But the show was also about their stories (Arthur becoming King, Merlin helping him and trying to conceal his magic) not only their friendship. Their stories and the characters connected to them and their friendship were all in the focal point.

I will agree with LurkerITW in this one. I haven't thought their relationship as homosexual. They are like brothers not lovers. They share brotherly love, let's just don't become exorbitant. The producers said indeed that there is no homosexual relationship between them.