Merlin: 5:03 The Death Song of Uther Pendragon

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I don’t know.  I should probably admit that I was expecting/hoping for a different episode than the one we got, so I’m actually reviewing the wrong thing. I know too that I’m stlll wearing my Traumatised By S4 Pt 2 goggles. But I can still see that there was alot to appreciate.  We were given the, now rare, treat of an episode centred almost

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Re: dis-expectations and Mer/Colin nuggets

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Hi There :) Believe me I share your pain looking at these spoilers. Im trying to convince myself that must be wrong because with all the important stuff they still have to deal with (Mordred, the magic ban, the reveal) they wouldnt waste 4 or 5 episodes on Mary Sue? But then I wouldn't have believed they'd massacre the Lancelot legend and try to rest a whole half season on the Disney romance. So Im not sure my optimism is very sound. :P

I think your Ken Follett analogy is an interesting one and I take the point I think - the thing TPTB never fail to enjoy is bad things (I mean lastingly painful things) happening to Merlin as a character, even as at the other end of the spectrum, we all know well in advance that Gwen as a character never suffers for long and is always rewarded for any suffering she endures. This season she spends 3 episodes enchanted apparently after being 'tortured' by Morgana Icough) but does anyone expect that to leave the slightest impact on her once its over? Her character isn't allowed the depth to actually suffer real loss or damage. Even Arthur and Morgana get to feel lasting pain and emotional scars. I often wonder why they decided to reduce Gwen The Moral Compass to the cipher that she's become. But given that they have, I truly don't understand why they persist in focussing so much precious time on a dramatically empty character - the most boring and predictable on the show by a long long way and I include Morgana's panto plotting in that too. Ah well...