I believe we have discussed previously how much I hate episodes that do virtually nothing to further the plot, especially when it’s close to the end of the season. Granted, I have no idea how many episodes are in this season, but I’m pretty sure it’s close enough to the end that this kind of episode doesn’t have good timing. This is not to say that I didn’t find it to be an entertaining episode, it was actually not bad. Plenty of action, people getting away from Uther, girls fighting with swords (aka one of my favorite things). It just didn’t do much for the plot. We didn’t need to go back to Merlin’s home village and see the kind of life he used to lead, the people he lived with, his mom. And of course we had to have the obligatory “magic is bad news bears” lecture, but this time from Arthur! Fortunately, one of Merlin’s now dead friends took the credit for the awful magic that saved the people’s lives, so Merlin wasn’t found out. But it’s kind of disappointing that for all Arthur thinks Uther’s policies are bad, he is anti magic and doesn’t even have an explanation.
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Merlin 1:10
