User blog comment:MerlinUSA/Merlin -- The Big Picture/@comment-5102537-20130120143649/@comment-5764349-20130122190119

First of all knowing that you are gay gives more sense to all your posts, because in the end it all comes down to 'everyone sees what they want to see' (and I mean everyone, myself included).

However, to compare Freya with Daegal it's almost a joke; in one hand you actually see them kiss and Merlin saying that he liked her and in the other is pure speculation just because they spent some time together. According to that you could also say that Morgana had sex with Morgouse because there were a year together.

If you need an explanation for the kissing in front of Merlin, which honestly I don't because it's not that implausible to kiss in front of your friends, you could always say that it was because Gwen was Dark Gwen and so she didn't care about those things. The same thing about Merlin rushing out of the room, he knew (or at least suspected, i don't remember the timeline exactly) that Gwen was evil and he obviously didn't like that.

I'll give you that there were some things and lines in season 5 that screamed gay, like the "I was born to serve you, Arthur" line. However in my oppinion this is one of the many things the writers changed in season 5 because they realized that many of their viewers were Merthur shippers (see fanfiction.com to see that there are eight times more fanfics about Merthur than about Mergana or Arwen). Even then, I think that those scenes doesn't actually imply that they are gay, but were there as a 'gift' (not exactly the word) to Merthur shippers. I mean, if you actually wanted to make them gay, why not make them gay? Wouldn't that be easier than to leave to the audience to piece together certain things to reach to that conclussion?

Now, finally, about what you wrote: "But to say he's straight and nothing else reflects a high discomfort level about same-sex eroticism.  This discomfort, left to itself, can and does become hatred toward homosexuals.  I hope this doesn't describe you."

That's just a cheap blow. I mean, come on, Fimber didn't said anything anti gay, she just said what was her take on the characters and you answered with that... Not cool (to say the least).

As I said, in the end everyone sees what they want to see; who knows? Maybe the writers meant that Arthur was an alien who was returning to the mothership, or that Merlin was a metaphor for the Big Bang, and here we are, talking about magic... And that's ok; what it's not is you saying that someone has hatred towards homosexuals just because they don't see gay characters where you do.

EDIT: As Fimber pointed out in his next post, MerlinUSA was actually referring to Lurker's post when he said the phrase I quoted from him; what I wrote still aplies, though.