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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invokethehojo" data-source="post: 5528378" data-attributes="member: 62525">I like Merlin a lot (which is quite a thing for to me say considering I have never liked Fiennes in anything else), and I like how they portray magic, but I can't get into the show because of some major writing hiccups (at least imo).*Spoilers*Like in the first episode, when arthur takes a piss and some random dude jumps out and attacks him for no reason, then arthur kills him.  Then we find out random dude was King Lot's son and some other hidden dude just happened to witness it all.  WTF?  Or his meeting guenivere (or however you spell it).  He's on a beach mourning, and his future queen just walks up out of the ocean.I can suspend disbelief for things like arthur climbing a vertical waterfall even though he is 90 pounds soaking wet, But I draw the line at a show with this kind of budget and resources using such contrived tricks to introduce characters or plot points.    The sword in the stone backstory was wicked cool though, so if I hear that the writing straitens out by the end of the first season I will catch up.</blockquote>