Merlin : Season 5

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Something has to change if they want to keep their viewers. I think Merlin could reveal his secret to Arthur and there could still be some longevity in the show.
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yea but for budget reasons they don't lol....

hopefully in the last episode he finds out.
 
Good epsiode tonight, though im really wondering what the point of having Merlin in old man mode was at the end. We're all assuming he reveals that he's a sorcerer (and the audio at the end of the ep confirms that) but to who or how many i suppose is the question :confused: The dragon will also have to make an appearence, considering he's in old age and presumably dying it'll be interesting to see how thats played out as well.

Really blows that theres only one more episode left, suppose it depends on how it plays out but its very possible they could have had the "reveal" much earlier and have fewer episodes with people getting conveniently knocked out to let him use his magic. Was a good show that i look forward to every year :(
 
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in is now immortal and is stuck at that age forever.

tommorow he will be walking down the same road he walked into camelot on and a modern truck will drive past him ;)

or so the internet rumours go
 
I had no idea Mondays episode was to be the last one ever. Last nights episode was great and I wish more of them had had the same excitement and interest levels. Then again, if all the ep's were as good as last nights I'd miss the show a lot more than I will.

Just noticed that the last episode is a regular 45mins. Would love it to have been a 90 minute job with epic battle sequences. They could have ended it with Merlin "doing" Morgana over a rock ... just out of spite :D
 
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That's it., all done. I cant be the only one thinking its a waste after such a cracking season? I mean i think its the best thing on the bbc lately.
 
Well that ending seemed like it was slapped together to say the least, im pretty sure in the legend Arthur lived to a pretty old age, in this he can only be in his 20's and he's dead and gone. And going by the ending with it being in present times it seems there was never any hope for a season 6 in the first place. :(

That was really dissapointing to say the least, it ends just when people are staring to know who Merlin really is, hows that "going out on a high"? If anything it leaves the door open for larger scale storylines yet at that point they can it? :confused:

Now i understand why they say the movies may be reboots, no real way they can continue on from that ending without it seeming incredibly hokey.
 
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only the lost ending was more disappointing than this.

No epic showdown , pretty much merlin and arthur wanderind the woods....

V0n said this in another thread regarding filler episodes for scifi tv series
SG, Star Treks etc are always full of filler - short arc episodes without progressing long arc/season long stories - oh, two of them entered the gate, tada!, they are stuck on a planet, that looks just like any generic Canadian location. Pine trees everywhere. They should walk around that forest glade in the middle in circles for half an hour I think. What will they do, what will they do. Oh, so good that unknown extra dude found them in 44th minute.
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sounds a lot like this last ever merlin episode.....

must have been about the 44th minute morgana came ?
 
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Well thats it, stick a fork in it! 5 Years of something that had its ups and downs, dodgy moments and downright brilliant one's!

It has been good and I cannot get over how fast the time has flown! Started watching this with my two kids and missus. My son started loosing interest from mid season 3, the xbox and ps3 won out in the end. But I still stuck at it, as did the my daughter and better half, its that saturday family thing.

I like the little modern bit at the end! Merlin looking like the village tramp plodding along all the old haunts. I wonder if people will now start pointing the old codger out shouting "OI Merlin!"

Thank you BBC. At least you did not wee every last drop of our licence fee on pointless programs about property you will never afford or some other rubbish program. I am off to sort all the merlin episodes I recorded over the years, might watch some and see how much it changed over the years :)
 
Plenty of plot holes in that episode as well, with the Elephant in the room being why didn't Merlin call the Dragon to get to Avalon right away instead of stumbling across Terrain (with enemys in it) carting Arthur along for 2 days. Always makes me wonder how something as obvious as that gets overlooked..
 
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I felt it was a fairly weak ending.

I'm sure they wanted to do something different, but something more traditional would have been better.
I would have much preferred a ending where we had ten minutes of merlin healing Arthur, getting him in the right shape, even if it had meant the sacrifice of another major character - I feel gaius may have been right for this.
They mourn his passing, but then we spend five minutes seeing what is to come in Camelot, the allowing of sorcery and the joys it will bring to the kingdom. Celebrations, parties, festivals. It would have been cheesy yes, but I feel it would have been a nicer ending.
Instead we seem to have got something very Captain America esque...
The bit at the end with the Lorry is really what ruined it completely. Arthur clearly isn't going to rise again into a time where he can do anything with a sword...
Shame really. Weak ending to a fantastic series in my opinion, and no idea why the BBC have written it off... When they killed Robin Hood, that made sense, it drifted too far, but this was still good. God knows...

kd
 
your spoiler is what I would have wanted too! my wife and I both where like WTF at the end...I hope there isn't a modern day spin off...it would be very weak.
 
excellent show on the whole, but a rather bizzare / rushed feeling ending to it all. i echo a number of the points others have made above.

shame as this is one of the best current bbc series around imo.
 
King Damager said:
I felt it was a fairly weak ending.

I'm sure they wanted to do something different, but something more traditional would have been better.
I would have much preferred a ending where we had ten minutes of merlin healing Arthur, getting him in the right shape, even if it had meant the sacrifice of another major character - I feel gaius may have been right for this.
They mourn his passing, but then we spend five minutes seeing what is to come in Camelot, the allowing of sorcery and the joys it will bring to the kingdom. Celebrations, parties, festivals. It would have been cheesy yes, but I feel it would have been a nicer ending.
Instead we seem to have got something very Captain America esque...
The bit at the end with the Lorry is really what ruined it completely. Arthur clearly isn't going to rise again into a time where he can do anything with a sword...
Shame really. Weak ending to a fantastic series in my opinion, and no idea why the BBC have written it off... When they killed Robin Hood, that made sense, it drifted too far, but this was still good. God knows...

kd
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From what ive read its the producers who apparently always said it would be 5 seasons but for a while they did say a 6th season was possible, im pretty sure around august\sept there were still tweets doing the rounds with them saying "maybe" but with this ending i very much doubt it was ever in any serious way being considered. Apparently the final word was down to them though and they chose to go this route.

They really did end the show at a point thats just frustrating, as you said no acceptance of magic, despite the obvious fact that if Arthur had survived and magic was accepted it could lead to episodes on a far more epic scale than previously seen. Just annoying that the big "unveil" was to a semi concious Arthur, and when Gwen was told she basically just smiled and that was it.

It really could have done with the unveil coming in the middle of the season, or a different ending to this where Arthur is healed and one more season to explore a camelot with magic acceptance. All they really did was build the thought of the "golden age of camelot" in our minds for 5 seasons only for it to skip to modern day and have none of that be seen. :confused: It really does boggle my mind how writers can build that one thought up over the years and then totally ignore it at the end.

Confusing and annoying ending to what was a good little series. As for the movies theyre not even guaranteed to have the same Actors, and apparently would most likely be reboots so this episode seems to be it done and dusted. :(
 
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It was to me an epic series, I loved the characters and felt like I was in their world but those final two episodes which could've turned out to be an amazing end failed big time. I felt like everything I believed in had just been destroyed.

It also felt rushed and as Gerard said " no acceptance of magic, despite the obvious fact that if Arthur had survived and magic was accepted it could lead to episodes on a far more epic scale than previously seen ". Well done BBC on destroying another great series ! Besides, why couldn't they do a spin off from Arthurs demise up until where he is at now at least. Also the queen seems to have given up hope pretty damn quickly, considering it was Merlin who was helping out

At the end of that final, I felt sad yet very ANGRY and let down
 
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DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED MERLIN YET :p

Whilst watching the slow demise of Arthur I imagined after Guinevere was crowned queen that the scene would skip a number of months, say to the birth of Arthur's son, which would then skip to another scene of Arthur's son begin trained for his kingly duties, and a final scene of him being crowned king with Merlin at his side, to the chorus of "Long live the King."
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Some great replies here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-ra...rlin-will-it-go-out-with-a-bang?commentpage=2
 
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