User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/Has the Merlin series "jumped the shark"?/@comment-5659316-20121119024611

I must be in the minority, but I think the show is actually going really well! I mean, are there things I wish were different? Is there a kind of episode I'm just dying to see and feel the writers are never going to do? Heck yes! Like everyone else, I think I too am waiting for a magic reveal between Merlin and Arthur, and I REALLY REALLY want Gilli and Freya to come back, BUT those two things aside, I think series 5 has actually been really great (with the exception of Song of Uther Pendragon... Howard Overman, honey, everyone's sick of these random ghost plots, they add NADA to the story). As for the repeative bits, LIFE is repeative, it gives the show a sense of realism and de-ja-vu. Plus I just have a feeling the writers are building up to something massive here and we as viewers have to stop jumping on their backs every episode whining our butts off. WE as viewers are the ones "jumping the shark", not the writers.

I would not be ENTIRELY opossed to new writers if they had fresh ideas, but I'd be VERY VERY sad if they fired Julian Jones or he just left the show. He's the strong link writing wise.

While I don't mean to attack anyone in particular, I think the fans need to stop whining about EVERY STINKING EPISODE! I'm beginning to feel like I'm watching Merlin with a bunch of Statler and waldorfs booing from the comment balconies! If you hate the show so much, why do you watch it every week? I've had my favorites and ones I haven't cared for as much, but I don't trash every episode. Or pout EVERY TIME Merlin doesn't tell Arthur he has magic, or somebody gets enchanted, or a running gag is used.

You're all free to love (or loathe) each episode as they come, BUT don't ruin it for those of us who DID like it. Don't try and tell the writers they may need to quit. No one's going to believe you people even LIKE this show, let alone want it to continue, if you all nit-pick every episode. We're all free to our opinons, but this negativeness isn't even NEW. I'm sure just as many of you whined when Morgana became evil in series 3, or Arthur didn't find out about Merlin in series 4 (a number of you never shush about how resentful you are that Agravaine got "Too much screen time"; that series is OVER now, we're in five, four is done, get over it! Not everything I wanted to happen happened in four either! It's FINE. Just give the writers time to do what they are going to do!)...

And that's all I have to say about that.

I for one think the show is as good as ever.