User blog comment:OneofthePendragon94/Irrelevant hatred toward Gwen,overrated Morgana and underrated Merlin./@comment-5102537-20121106134621

I agree that a big part of the Merlin fandom is very immature, but not because they are criticising character behaviours but because a lot of fans fail to see more than one side to many things and characters. They also tend to see everything in black & white and side with certain characters who they defend by all means. Whenever character behaviour is incomprehensible, they try to defend their favourites by belittling the others and a sort of competetion starts.

It's not only the immature fans but also the writers who indeed deliver a lot of character inconsistencies and incomprehensible character descriptions, like, for example, Morgana and recently Uther when he returned. Naturally, this kind of characterisation invites viewers to overlook the grey zones and to follow an immature good against evil-story. Half of the harsh disagreements within the fandom could have been prevented if the show wouldn't exeggerate their character descriptions to this extent and people could be more relaxed on both villains and protagonists. They even managed to start a competetion between Arthur and Uther, father and son instead of keeping the path of a strong bond between them.

The mentally strongest characters on this show used to be Gwen, Gaius and Merlin in my opinion but even this has changed and both show signs of becoming fickle and even turning to the dark side in Merlin' case.

I am one of those who think that Gwen and Arthur have no chemistry at all, yet I have always loved Gwen and I think she used to be a great and interesting character. It's not her fault that her great potential has been reduced to a nice female at Arthur's side, supporting him in everything he does with occasionally questioning what he is up to. In the end she just smiles and lets Arthur do whatever he thinks he needs to do. Gwen was and could be so much more.

I won't start on Morgana because I have written essays about her ridiculous new character description since season three already.

I would suggest to simply ignore those few people who bash Gwen, it's not worth it to get angry about it. Neither Katie McGrath nor Angel Coulby are responsible for their meanwhile either insane or more boring characterisations. The best developed character on Merlin has always been Uther up until The Wicked Day. This was the start of the change of everyone else including Uther, and from that moment on, things went downhill.