ThiefHott Too much of everything

Wordiezett So much average

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

somethingshire For people saying this show isn't like the Arthur legend so it's bad, let me just say, that's the point. The Arthurian Legends are heavily Christian, Merlin and Morgana are hardly even characters. The druids were supposedly the old religion of Britain, Ireland, Scotland. Tales like dragons and elves and fairies and wizards and witches originally come from old beliefs. The Arthur legend is in part about the onset of Christianity in Medieval times. This is enjoyable even if you aren't Christian though. In fact, it makes a point of criticizing cruel methods of spreading Christianity. Are things different even if sorcery was real and not myths? Not really, you can do good or ill with it, just as you can use great power, influence, and wealth for good or ill. In fact, I feel that it is criticizing this kind of behavior in general and using it to discuss things that are more modern such as racism, making Guinivere a black serving girl, and perhaps others such as disputes about the humanity of drug laws. It has been argued in Mexico that it violates a human right of free development of personality to ban marijuana. Indeed, in this story it is not as simple as Christianity simply taking over where sorcery was. Even if Merlin becomes Christian he has to hide who and what he is for fear of death. This makes characters like Morgana and Mordrid less truly bad characters and their actions more understandable. Their actions are completely understandable because they were not just defending a belief, but themselves and their families, often slaughtered and made to go into hiding by Uther. Uther is an interesting character as well. He's truly terrible. His reason for hating sorcery is interesting when explained. (nothing to do with christianity) Completely mad and even funny at times. It's definitely modernized, for the better since Merlin is the best character anyway, and strangely I like his big ears. They're cute. Sort of funny. Old men with big ears usually look like little goblins, especially if white hair is poking out of them. But it's a great show, lots of ethical things for you to puzzle over. Is it even understandable why Merlin supports Arthur? Would you in his position, given what a terrible guy Uther is? Honestly I would run away with Kilgara but I suppose if that happened the show would be over.

androssparker The writers overuse the same, "I don't trust my friends enough to tell them the truth storyline." I would have give it an 8/10 but sir Elyan's hairline lost them a point.

jmaemitchell I love this show there are so many twists that I love and is very addicting. I love all the characters but especially Merlin.

Worldstone I promise you that after finishing all 5 seasons, if you pick it hard enough, there are so many plot holes that it will make your brain implode. About halfway into season 1 I started realizing how cheesy just about everything was. The writing, dialogue, special effects, and at times, the acting (Don't get me wrong, by the end I thought there were some really good performances). But it was still enjoyable enough to hook me in.If you love the story of King Arthur, you will enjoy this, although I felt like some aspects of the real story were butchered to hell for a younger audience, I had to use my imagination to fill in damages to the story so that so I could enjoy it.It's worth giving a chance, but if you don't get grabbed by the hook like I did, you're not missing out on too much.