MERLIN: I'M GONNA KILL ARTHUR! / LEON: OH ALL RIGHT THEN!

[llivla]

This episode is officially immediately after Darkest Hour parts i and ii for best eps of the season. THIS EPISODE. JUST. GWEN. the best Gwen. SO LOGICAL AND REASONABLE. I remember in S1 watching her and wishing she'd get development because she was seriously the most normal/sane out of everyone in their crazy ot4. I would soooo watch a Gwen the

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[llivla]

I was actually sort of shipping Arthur and Gwen a bit! For once they were coming across as equals than just playing pretend behind the grown ups' backs. Eps like this make me wonder for what could have been if they had taken time for Gwen and Arthur to fall for each other.

Awkward/smart Gwen only comes in spurts, much like Morgana having a point other than being evil/mad does. :( Most times the focus is too much on Queen Gwen that I can't see the girl she was before. Here was a great balance showing how far she's come, how she IS, and how she will continue to grow.

You hate Gwen? :((( I love Gwen so much but I can't stand her with Arthur. IMO he doesn't treat her very well, showing how little the writers care about her feelings. I wanted to smack Arthur last ep for breaking her heart and then coming back like two hours later all J/K! and she was supposed to just accept it and be as in love as ever. It's fine when Arthur's messing with Merlin, but the writers don't let Gwen have the personality to hit right back when Arthur's a prat. Like they deleted Arthur/Morgana and Gwen/Morgana's relationships, they just delete who Arthur and Gwen ARE to shove them together in a cookie cut script. Another reason I stopped watching mid S2, and watched none of S3 when I could just recap via my friend list, I felt like Gwen was replaced by a pod person. Ugh.

[istne_pieklo]

I'm sorry, I meant no offence by saying I hated her. You see, I didn't hate her at first. I was maybe a little indifferent, but that's just b/c I always pay more attention to boys at first and girls have to grow on me. But then they forced this Arthur/Gwen thing on us! And she began to really annoy me. It's just as you say: no development, just spurts. Right now Gwen is defined by her pseudo-wise words to Arthur (but notice that when Gwen says stuff like "You'll make a great king", Arthur's like: well, yeah, whatever; but when Merlin says it, he's like: You think so? Awesome!))))). I don't think Bradley enjoys playing these scenes with Gwen, that's why there's zero chemistry. She could be so great, but the writers completely ruined her(( That's not Queen Guinevere at all. But then, they really do it to everyone. Morgana is awesome, but she has fits of stupidity as well.
If they actually took time to develop both Gwen's personality and her relationship with Arthur, I wouldn't have minded this much (even if I'm a hardcore Arthur/Merlin fan), but really, how can they just take what is supposed to be the main canon pairing and screw it up this much?