User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/The Best Under-Rated Characters of The Whole Series/@comment-82.24.30.240-20130113143608/@comment-5209013-20130113160639

I can certainly get your point, Merlin isn't the right choice if you want to watch something historical. But then again it was never the producers' purpose to be historically accurate. Do not forget that Merlin is a modern retelling of an ancient legend, and a family show with magic and talking dragons. It's meant for the whole family and therefore a lot of children watch it, and it wouldn't be right for them to see Arthur and Morgana being married at the age of 13, or people dying of old age when they are only thirty years old.