Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130608085206/@comment-6905051-20130613060341

The problem with the show's writers are, they do not think how one episode will impact overall story arc, they do not carry forward stories from previous episodes or think about future tracks, they treat each episode as a cartoon network one off cartoon segments of cartoons.

Arthur does not give any thought for morgana because writers were too busy to establish Gwen missing and her sacrifice.

Morgana personally wanting to save Gwen and Arthur going for it was okay imo. gwen was her friend and also Arthur's friend and love of life. But Arthur's logic why he agreed with Uther publicly was wrong. He says he cannot disagree to Uther in front of other people, instead of saying Uther has a point. Despite Gwen's sacrifice, and her being our friend, she expected to do these things for her liege. Its not uncommon or extraordinary. This is one of many plot holes in Merlin we diss on a regular basis.

As for Gwen and her being liked. First off, she is a heroine of the show and was written in that way, all men would want to save her, fall for her etc.

If we forget she is a character and treat all these characters as real people, she might be one of those women with that x factor or charishma. NOt traditionally extremely beautiful but the way she speaks, she acts, her behaviour, her qualities like just mind, kind heart etc draws men to her.