User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why all this hate?/@comment-2604:3D08:937F:DB00:5943:86D8:DAA6:990C-20190328100433

Gwen being a women of colour in Merlin actually happens to be one of great things about this show, imo. For fucks sake, It's a show about magic and It's got talking dragons and whatnot, but a black lady playing Guinevere is "not accurate" and "true to reality" LOL!

Also, I don't think the actress playing Guinevere was necessarily "ugly". She's actually quite pretty in her own way. I do, however, think that Gugu Mbatha-raw would have been a better fit. Or someone else.