I'm not even watching Merlin anymore, but it's fascinating to me to read the reaction posts. Every one is different, and every one has things in it that make me glad not to be invested in this show anymore...
As an innocent bystander, I have the impression that at this point, the main problem is that the show lacks the courage to move on from a premise that has lost it's narrative plausability some time ago. The trope "Merlin hides his magic from Arthur" means that most other plot elements can't move on, and are caught cycling through their limited little range again and again. The relationships can't truly develop, nothing concerning Merlin can truly evolve or change, external plots have to repeat and characters and plots have to be forced into unnatural positions in order to make things work... all because a central premise of the show makes no narrative sense anymore at this point, and should have evolved several seasons back.
There's just nowhere to go from here. And I can't understand why TPTB can't let go of this one premise, when it is so clearly holding up everything else and preventing things from moving forward.
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Date: 2012-11-25 01:02 am (UTC)As an innocent bystander, I have the impression that at this point, the main problem is that the show lacks the courage to move on from a premise that has lost it's narrative plausability some time ago. The trope "Merlin hides his magic from Arthur" means that most other plot elements can't move on, and are caught cycling through their limited little range again and again. The relationships can't truly develop, nothing concerning Merlin can truly evolve or change, external plots have to repeat and characters and plots have to be forced into unnatural positions in order to make things work... all because a central premise of the show makes no narrative sense anymore at this point, and should have evolved several seasons back.
There's just nowhere to go from here. And I can't understand why TPTB can't let go of this one premise, when it is so clearly holding up everything else and preventing things from moving forward.
/rant
Ahem, sorry.