Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-5995315-20130207171053/@comment-5102537-20130209110333

I agree with you, ReganX. That's precisely what logic tells us. Plus, sorcerers and magic-users have no reason whatsoever to suddenly stop attacking Camelot, especially when the final battle was a fight against magic and killed the last High Priestess. In order to make us believe that suddenly all sorcerers/witches/magic-users who have contantly attacked Camelot (and even before Uther was born already), were peaceful and Camelot's best friends after the events at Camlann, Merlin should have taken care of it by uniting them under his leadership, for example. As far as we know, nothing like this happened since Merlin didn't return to Camelot.

Not to mention that when Merlin is wandering the streets of our present times, we know quite well that magic is no more, hence Merlin and Arthur failed. Which, by the way, is something that the producers also said in interviews some weeks ago - that it was about failure.

The finale showed us what we saw, as simple as it is: no Albion, no re-establishing magic in Camelot, Arthur dead, Merlin gone, Gwen alone, Camelot weakened without the support of its allies.

As for the friendship being the heart of the show, I'm a little tired of this subject because something being the heart of the show and ignoring what the story told us for almost five seasons are two different things. Among the characters, Merlin and Arthur were the focus, the heart. It was their friendship that was in the foreground rather than a relationship between Gwaine and a woman, for example, or the relationship between Mordred and Morgana or whatever. The friendship of Arthur and Merlin was supposed to develop the story and to conclude the question about their destinies and their fate. Instead it didn't conclude their story about destiny and fate but ignored and even changed it.

The intro of each Merlin-epsiode was "In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man (boy). His name: Merlin"

It doesn't say "In a land of myth and a time of magic, everything is actually unimportant in the end because it's all only about a friendship."

Does anyone remember that in season one already Kilgharrah told Merlin that his destiny was to protect Arthur until he is king? This shows pretty well that it was all planned differently in the beginning.