Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140405091322/@comment-24785400-20140411221525

I pretty much agree with everything you've said Areanna123, I too wanted to know more about Queen Mab, she did help Merlin and warn him that one of the knights would die. But she may have been neutral in her alliances. However she was just another idea or plot device, like the Disir, the Triple Goddess and later the White Goddess that wasn't fully thought out or developed in anyway.

I too was confused about the dinner scene with Gwen, and thought she was going for the Stockholm syndrome thing, but I know other people had other ideas about it at the time (when you have wishy-washing writing, everybody ends up getting a different impression of what the story is)

''It makes me curious about what exactly all these prophecies are saying. Some people think Arthur is the chosen one, some seem to think it's Merlin, and a lot of these people/creatures of the Old Religion consider Morgana their savior. Are there just a bunch of conflicting prophecies or is there this one really vague prophecy that everyone's interpreting the way they want?''

THIS - yes, exactly, what was going all? was there all different factions of the old religion fighting it out. If Merlin was the chosen one shouldn't they have got to him earlier, as in even before his mother sent him of to the very heart of magic-oppressing Camelot? ''Why don't Wyverns ever seem to attack Morgana? I mean it's not important or anything, but I'm curious. Is it a High Priestess thing or is she just that good with animals?''

I hadn't thought of this, but yes! LOL, I had been wondering how she managed to get through the impenetrable forest (or did she go around it?)

It was sort of sad finding out how she'd been imprisoned for so long, (when did Arthur find out, and did Merlin ever find out, Aithusa was imprisoned too, but he never seemed to go looking for her) but I did too wonder if Morgause had done the same to Morgana. Its such a pity that everybody just wrote her off of crazy and sadistic, without ever reaching out to her.

The story arc was very annoying, as it really led nowhere and was just treading water and rehashing story lines. The thing that most annoyed me was all the characters where becoming distinctly unlikeable, and poor Gwen was left having been enchanted and doing horrible things - did she even know what she'd done? For a show that liked to be dark and depressing, there was never any fall-out or consequences from the characters actions.