Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-83.249.134.172-20121224234548/@comment-5910167-20121227070409

As has been said, although Merlin the show has been killed off for now, there are plenty of ways to revive it at some future date.

There is the sense of as-yet unfulfilled destiny of the young Merlin. This is not yet the Merlin of the legend and Albion has not yet been united. Nor has the magic ban yet been lifted as we know ultimately it will be.

Arthur is the "once and future King" who will return when Albion's needs are greatest.

Morgana's magic was too powerful to die with her body and she will always seek to influence events.

The wonderfully ambiguous Mordred was not killed. His eyes were watching Merlin carry Arthur away. The wound was very serious but Mordred has magic and Arthur's blade was not forged in a dragon's breath.

Despite her witnessing of Merlin's magic deeds in the Great Battle, the increasingly ruthless Gwen knows that it was a magic sword that ultimately killed Arthur and Morgana is always trying to return. She begins to carry out a systematic extermination of those with magic on a scale that Uther could not have imagined. It is a holocaust. Merlin has to take sides against her and Camelot. He desperately needs an ally in Mordred and he needs Arthur to return!