Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20140217120328/@comment-203.206.98.221-20140226204331

Its one of the million dollar questions isn't it? and one I've always wondered about as well.

Did he hold back because at the right time, Arthur would magically think that Magic could be used for good. Which is all sorts of wrong attitude, as ReganX points out. Was Merlin afraid of upsetting Arthur, and risk being banished or imprisoned (which was my argument recently on why Arthur/Merlin is not a true romance or even love...another topic). Was Gaius as big a troll as the Dragon and held Merlin back from actually ever doing anything, and Merlin believed him? We're supposed to believe that 3 years of peace went by before season 5, and Merlin did absolutely bugger all to try and change Arthur's perspective on magic. Or do we just put it all down to another epic writing fail, that the showrunners couldn't see that having everybody with magic other than Merlin being evil would would be detrimental, especially if you never showed something to counteract it.