Download Merlin Season 5 Episode 4
Kanisha Dezarn
Soon enough, they realize that Agravaine is still following them and Merlin insists he knows enough of these tunnels to get rid of Agravaine and his baddies. Arthur left with no choice agrees to let him go and Merlin leads Agravaine and his knights into a dead end, it seems, of a cave where Merlin uses his magic to knock them all unconscious.
I confess I am sick and tired of Morgana as a character. She is a one note character, built up through the expanse of the season to be stronger than Merlin, stronger than Arthur as a king in order to get her forces around her to take the castle, so that she can be defeated in the end. Not once in the entire season is there a balance between Morgana and Merlin to show viewers that how and why these two challenge each other. Instead, lazy writing turns to an aged Emrys to show how much Morgana is afraid of him.
That night, Merlin goes back into the castle as Emrys, lingering just long enough for Morgana to catch sight of him. She panicks, and sends her guards after him, but Merlin evades them and casts a spell before he escapes, in his usual age, and in a cloak of abad guy he knocked out.
Morgana is overcome with fear and emotion at seeing Emrys, and it is up to Helios to be properly consoling, before waxing lyrical about how Emrys being so scared of her, which is about when I fall down laughing, and wonder how and why these writers even have female characters on this show if their writing of them is such a bad rollercoaster. Like all big bad men who are in charge, Helios actually tells her to rest, and she actually obeys, ordering that he make sure there are guards at the door.
And cue, the wedding! Or crowning really. Just as Morgana saw it in her visions. So, in one finale, there is the sword in the stone and Arthur and Gwen married. Does this mean season 5 has to focus on Merlin? I would hope so.
After a strong start to this season, that had me looking forward to what the rest of the episodes could bring, the writers unfortunately faltered and much of the second half of the season was a muddled mess of bad characterization as they rushed along to an ending at all costs and sacrificing everything they could in order to get The Sword in the Stone and the Arthur/Gwen marriage out of the way.
For four amazing seasons of Merlin, we were honored with amazing stories of dragons, magicians, and friendship. Then, Season 5 came out, and ruined pretty much the whole story. Not because the ending was weak or poorly conceived. The reason Season 5 of Merlin was so bad is that the story felt like it was all for nothing by the end.
There were a lot of things wrong with season five of Merlin. For one, it is obvious that the story was rushed to make it all fit into 13 episodes. Because of this, there are many plot holes, loose ends, and some questionable character actions.
Even a quick timeline through the future of Camelot after Arthur dies where humans and magic users are in peace would have been better. Or, if the directors really wanted us to be traumatized by death, having Merlin die just as Arthur began to accept magic would have been a great option.
It would have allowed the directors to still wrap up the show and give us a painful ending. But Arthur would have lived, which meant that Merlin fulfilled his duty and Camelot would go on to be a better place, as we were promised throughout Merlin.
At the end of the show, as Arthur was breathing out his last few breaths, I was left sitting there, wondering what the point of the first four seasons was. Why did we get a story about a man who failed at all his tasks?
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