i feel like the show never stood a chance once peter left

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I think Marc Warren was actually a better villain, but you can tell the BBC just totally lost their nerve and dumped it, which sucked. It was a cute show with hot dudes and interesting female characters.

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your rant has brought up all my old merlin bitterness, but maybe I should support Lance and give this a shot lol

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It's not quite as family-friendly as Merlin but it has its goofy moments. I just thought it was a good weekly potboiler with hot dudes -- nothing incredible but a good time.



And Hot Lancelot is extra hot with a beard.

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They ruined Merlin so much in the later seasons.

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Don't even start with Merlin, I will never forgive BBC for that clusterfuck. And the way I'll never be able to watch S5 finale without sobbing.

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I cried tears of embarrassment at that crazy shitty final scene.

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Thinking about Merlin makes me so sad

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He'll probably be better served in the UK. I think he'll just be stuck with cop or medical shows in the US.

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Well, if he's on CBS he'll be on for YEARS and make bank. But he won't really get to act so...

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I gave up once Capaldi left, tbh. I could not motivate myself to get through season 2 (also I was at the point where I was actually rooting for Spain, which showed how many fucks I gave about the characters). Each episode dragged on forever, there was far too much fighting and time per episode (much better had there only been 45 min per epp, I think).



Merlin season 1 was much better, IMO, in terms of being gripping. Of course it then went to shit after that



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Series two had a very weird, rocky start. Like it both tried to make it seem like it was now going to be hotter/scarier, and yet at the same time spent SO much of its runtime with boring court plots.



It did pick up majorly in the last half of the series, but I can see not wanting to stick around.

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Jesus, I didn't even realise they'd had a second season

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Yeah, it came out like a year ago. I was a fan of the show and found out it was starting like 2 days ahead of time. Just no promo at all.

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Oh Goddamnit. I enjoyed this show.

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I really enjoyed The Musketeers, not in an 'its amazing quality tv' kind of way, but it was enjoyable and the cast was stupidly attractive. For this failing they better give me at least one seriously hot sex scene between Milady and Athos or I may riot.



I was never a fan of Merlin past series 1 really. I loved that first season and I did enjoy when they made the knights like Gwaine and Percival more of a factor later on, but eh.



Edited at 2015-11-23 08:43 pm (UTC)

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I don't want to add considerable insult to injury, but Maimie got pregnant this year and couldn't film at all.

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omgggg noooo is she not appearing at all? I felt she and athos kind of carried the show they were the most interesting characters

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Whaaaat!? No! She was my fave female character and her and Athos made the show for me. Urgh!

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aw, that's sad to hear. i'm about to start watching it bc after playing need for speed... damn, howard charles is FINE and needs to be in bigger projects.

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He's the one I'm most worried about finding work after this. He's so, so good but even this show never used him properly.

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god cannot bless someone with such beauty for it to not be seen! i have faith 🙏

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I was just scrolling through the comments, hoping that someone would jump on the chance to post gifs of him. SO: THANK YOU!

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Aw that's sad. I rather liked this show. :(

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Awww. I was thinking of watching this just because the costumes look so pretty from what I have seen on Tumblr.

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It's still worth a go -- the first two series are good, and the third'll come out in a couple of months.

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I really enjoyed season 1 of this series but they really shat the bed with season 2. I haven't even finished watching it, I was so irritated by episode 3 that I stopped and never cared to start it up again. Damn you, BBC.

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I can understand giving up, but I will say that it improved a LOT after the first three episodes. Those were hard episodes to get through, though. It's like they forgot to start building a plot until about episode 5 -- but it does ramp up and the last two episodes of the series were probably the show's best.

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Auuuuuugh fine fine. I'm going to hold off and revisit/binge season 2 right before season 3 starts and see it through to the end.

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I mean things dont really get cancelled per say on BBC, but Im sure its winding down its run

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From what I've heard, they were told it was "probably" the final series a while ago, so they will have been given the opportunity to wrap things up. Which is good -- and like I said, allowing it to go on for years and years would've just run it into the ground. I'm more just disappointed that the BBC seemed to give up on it after Peter left.

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I mean, no it didn't.

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Lol

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I love this (admittedly mediocre) show and I'm disappointed tbh. first season was wacky fun with swashbuckling hot dudes, I would have watched 85 seasons of that!! the less said about s2 the better.



howie charles better get on a new show ASAP. I need that man's face on my screen.

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Its mediocrity is part of its charm, imo. I liked that in the sea of wanna-be Breaking Bads, you had a show that knew it was silly and played into that... for the first series, at least.



Supposedly the writers got the message about fan dissatisfaction loud and clear, though, and promised that Series 3 would be more of the dudes just hanging out and shooting watermelons, so fingers crossed.



Howard is so gorgeous. I think he'd make a good Shadow in American Gods -- provided he can do an American accent.

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(He can't. That awful Black Forest movie hurt.)

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It's such a shame, these shows are what the bbc need they haven't got anything going on now without this and Atlantis, after Strictly and Doctor Who finish it's just the long wait for Poldark and that's not really the same target audience.

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And apparently its AI numbers were really high -- which is usually enough for a a show to carry on, even if its viewing numbers are only so-so, but I'd guess that the costumes and location shooting costs were too high with the way the Conservatives have been cutting their funding.

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