Merlin, Season 5 spoilers
Sep. 27th, 2012 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartSince I'm finally updating again, let's talk about it, shall we? I've just read the first spoilers, and frankly, I'm of two minds about them. Probably because Season 4 was something of a disappointment for me. S4 was the one I liked the least. It took away the uniqueness of most characters (including the Dragon), and what I've read along this line doesn't make me hope for any better development.
They say S5 will be "darker". I'm not sure I welcome the show going even more dark than it was in S4 already. The idea of less guest characters is a good one - they've overdone it in the last season to the point where the knights became cardboard caricatures with no personality at all. No Lancelot, apparently. A shame. I liked Lancelot.
More Gwen, though. A shame. I don't like Gwen. She's such a badly-written Mary Sue that she comes close to another Gwen whom I'm so not discussing now. At least she's mostly just stupid. But if they blow her (mostly unnecessary) role up even more, she'll become a real annoyance.
They should never have gone the Cinderella route with Guinevere. It's the sound- and waterproof way to a full-blown Mary Sue. And nobody likes Mary Sues. Well, nobody but the Rustoid and his sycophants, that is. *sighs*
Perhaps I should finally tear myself away from "Sherlock" and watch "Camelot" before getting my hands on the new "Merlin" season. Either I'll come to like "Camelot", or, if it's really as bad as I've heard, it might make me yearn for "Merlin" again.
They say S5 will be "darker". I'm not sure I welcome the show going even more dark than it was in S4 already. The idea of less guest characters is a good one - they've overdone it in the last season to the point where the knights became cardboard caricatures with no personality at all. No Lancelot, apparently. A shame. I liked Lancelot.
More Gwen, though. A shame. I don't like Gwen. She's such a badly-written Mary Sue that she comes close to another Gwen whom I'm so not discussing now. At least she's mostly just stupid. But if they blow her (mostly unnecessary) role up even more, she'll become a real annoyance.
They should never have gone the Cinderella route with Guinevere. It's the sound- and waterproof way to a full-blown Mary Sue. And nobody likes Mary Sues. Well, nobody but the Rustoid and his sycophants, that is. *sighs*
Perhaps I should finally tear myself away from "Sherlock" and watch "Camelot" before getting my hands on the new "Merlin" season. Either I'll come to like "Camelot", or, if it's really as bad as I've heard, it might make me yearn for "Merlin" again.
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Date: 2012-09-27 05:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-27 05:50 pm (UTC)My problem with S4 of Merlin was that they took away the fun. It was on the best way to lose its unique charm completely, and I fear the same where S5 is considered.
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Date: 2012-09-27 09:01 pm (UTC)I really should finish watching Camelot at some point - I thought it was okay, some good features, some bad - but I like Arthurian retellings that aren't high medieval, so it got points for that. ;)
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Date: 2012-09-28 02:23 pm (UTC)As for "Camelot", I only saw a few glimpses of it when checking if the DVDs are all right. So far, I can tell you that I liked Sir Kay, hence his appearance in "Arthur's Quest". I think I ought to watch the complete series, and then we'll be able to chat about it on LJ and compare it with "Merlin", eh? :))
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Date: 2012-09-28 05:32 pm (UTC)