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| The Adventures of Merlin Season 5 (BBC) |
2026 Thoughts:
I've been rewatching Merlin (currently on season 3)! After watching the whole dragonlord arc and that earlier episode, where Kilgharrah taught Merlin a spell similar to how the Greybeards and Paarthurnax teach the dragonborn a dragon shout / thu'um, I'm actually convinced they got a few ideas from Merlin. Like they literally mention how dragonlords and dragons are kin and how their souls are brothers. BBC Merlin is (head)canonically a dovakhiin!!
Also, I remember a fanpage wanting to organize a ten year
Merlin anniversary meetup on the castle filming location in France but it lost steam over the years (my sister and I wanted to go lol). There will be a "
Ball of Camelot" event on the
Chateau De Pierrefonds in
France this coming
July/August 2026! They did the first "
Ball of Camelot" last 2025 and the tickets for 2026 are sold out but depending on the demand they might probably do another one again in the future. They're organized by
Gauntlets and Gowns which also did a "
Ball of Atlantis" event (
BBC Atlantis replaced
Merlin! But it was sadly also cancelled just about when it was getting exciting. It was funny at times and very enjoyable, but it was starting to heat up storyline wise which sucks! I'm not satisfied with how Merlin ended but at least it was wrapped up in a way)
Old 2012 post:
Time really does fly fast. It seems like it wasn't too long ago when I was waiting for the series/season 4 of The Adventures of Merlin to air, so I was pretty shocked to see that the season 5 will be airing in the U.K. on October 6, 2012! Seems that there are a lot of good TV shows coming out this time of the year (Doctor Who is already on its second episode for this season, and The Walking Dead season 3 first episode will also premiere next month).
Anyway, Merlin will be moved to a later time slot, so the atmosphere of the show will be affected. While I have no problem with seeing a bit more skin, I'm much more worried about the story line. Julian Murphy, co-creator of the series has said in a newspaper interview that they have to change the tone of the show to fit the increasing adult audience. I'm a bit worried since the setting is around 2-3 years later than season 4, there's no doubt that the characters would have changed in many ways. I am happy to hear that there will be more dragon action this season, and of course the return of Dragoon the Great. Let us all hope that Merlin will finally reveal his magic to Arthur this season.
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