I get the constant feeling the writers don't know what to do with Gwen, because she started off wrong as the servant girl (unlike in the legend) and now she's not good enough for a princely love interest. She made a great character in the first season (are there Gwen haters? really? poor girl) and then she faded into the background. Not even her unexplained fallout with Merlin makes sense and the distance from Morgana was not gradual, it just happened at some point. And, just like that, the writers also remembered Arthur is supposed to stop ignoring her and go ahead and fall head over heels, so she gets called for the occasional meaningful glance and Arthur being awkward. She used to be this feisty, full of potential character and now only gets to stand there and be pretty and the Arthur/Gwen is treated - at least in theory - very 'courtly love', pining from afar, but basically sort of disconnected. And whatever happened to sword-wielding Gwen? Her character seems to be moving in the direction of 'demure damsel in distress prone to accidental love affairs'.
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I get the constant feeling the writers don't know what to do with Gwen, because she started off wrong as the servant girl (unlike in the legend) and now she's not good enough for a princely love interest. She made a great character in the first season (are there Gwen haters? really? poor girl) and then she faded into the background. Not even her unexplained fallout with Merlin makes sense and the distance from Morgana was not gradual, it just happened at some point. And, just like that, the writers also remembered Arthur is supposed to stop ignoring her and go ahead and fall head over heels, so she gets called for the occasional meaningful glance and Arthur being awkward. She used to be this feisty, full of potential character and now only gets to stand there and be pretty and the Arthur/Gwen is treated - at least in theory - very 'courtly love', pining from afar, but basically sort of disconnected. And whatever happened to sword-wielding Gwen? Her character seems to be moving in the direction of 'demure damsel in distress prone to accidental love affairs'.