CultBox article: "Should 'Merlin' be more about Merlin?"
CultBox's Ian McArdell explores the reasons for and against S5 being more about Merlin.
Warning! Contains previously announced casting spoilers
( Article with spoilers under the cut )
Warning! Contains previously announced casting spoilers
( Article with spoilers under the cut )
Is it really? Because so far she's coveted: Uther's death, revenge, equality for people with magic, Camelot, Camelot bowing to her, killing everyone in Camelot, revenge against Camelot, bloodshed from people on Team Camelot, the throne, power, Gwen dead, Arthur dead, everyone dead, etc.
She has no idea what she wants and it's dragging the show down considerably, let's be real, because most of the plots are centered around her idiotic schemes where she puts something in effect and then sits around a fire waiting for the results. This then gives Merlin a chance to fix it pretty much unchallenged and she's pissed when it inevitably doesn't work. To be honest, I agree that I don't see how Merlin and Morgana are truly enemies other than the show keeps telling me they are, and they work against each other in their respective plans for the future. I have the same problem with the show telling me how powerful Morgana is/is getting when I don't see how considering her track record at successful plots is an estimated 3 out of 30,000 attempts. She gets all this power (and now a fucking dragon) and does nothing useful with it other than come up with plans like "Let's raise Lancelot from the dead and ruin Gwen's love life, fufufufufu". All the tension between her and Merlin is still clinging to that poisoning crutch from years ago where Morgana still can't see her fault in that situation and makes Merlin feel guilty over it if he's feeling bad that day.
And she really doesn't have a reason to go after Arthur either no matter how much the show tries to make her reasoning "you're Uther's son and stands for everything he did" because she's more like Uther than Uther was. Even Arthur pointed that out, which everyone at home should have picked up on for a while now.
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