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Episode #17 – A Merlin Season 5 Retrospective

Hosted by Pamela Gocobachi, Patricia Spence, Selina Wilken

January 20, 2013

Sassy elephants! Dolma dolls! Silver linings! Talks of Camelot, Hypable’s one and only Merlin podcast, is back this week not to continue our series rewatch but to look back over the final season of the show. In this episode we select the best and worst episodes of season 5, debate which characters got the best sendoffs, and discuss whether or not the ending (now that we’ve had some time to grieve) was satisfying.

Shownotes:

– In the news, the Merlin Game has some exciting news, Colin Morgan rehashes each episode of season 5, we interview Alexander Vlahos, and discuss the actors’ future projects
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– Most of the hosts agree that season 5 was the best, but not for the same reasons
– We pick our favourite and least favourite episodes
– What minor characters did we most enjoy?
– Patricia appreciates Mordred
– Best and worst character arcs: Gwen’s was… both?
– Gwaine’s arc was the most disappointing
– The sassy elephant in the room: an ode to Dolma
– We loved the quotes from the finale (just hold us!)
– Dolma Dolls!
– Serious business finale discussion: were we surprised by how depressing the ending was?
– Pamela sees the silver lining
– Selina does not
– Did the flash forward make it less depressing, or more?
– Did Merlin and Arthur stop the 2012 apocalypse?
– Merlin’s life was all about Arthur. How was Merlin supposed to go on alone?
– Could future Merlin have been reborn or has he wandered the earth for all this time?
– Was the entire season pointless, considering that Arthur’s death served no real purpose?
– Ultimately the morale of the story was that “sometimes, life sucks”
– The hosts are split on whether they would have preferred the show ending with or without the flash forward
– We’ll always come back to “tragically beautiful”
– A listener has a more critical view of the finale
– Another listener suggests that maybe Merlin can time travel
– Why is Merlin in his old Emrys form anyway?
– Pamela has a suspiciously specific reincarnation theory.

We hope that you enjoyed this episode and will share it with all your Merlin fandom friends! The series may be over but our rewatch is just beginning! And we hope that you’ll all watch, or at least listen, along with us as we experience Merlin all over again.

Leave your thoughts on the finale, the podcast and Merlin in general in the comments or on Twitter @TalksCamelot.

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