Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130302204954/@comment-6450015-20130303171405

I really enjoyed this episode. It was suspenseful, and wasn't predictable like the episode before this. The introduction of Nimueh was very well done, and the cliffhanger at the end made we want to find out everything I could about Nimueh. (I remember looking up Nimueh right after this episode, and finding out she was the Lady of the Lake in some versions. That confused me a lot).

Anyway, I've always wondered what drove Nimueh to create the plague. We found out why she wanted revenge on Uther, yet why did she need to kill so many innocents? That would have harmed Uther emotionally, but it still didn't really make sense to me. I keep going back to her line in the Series 1 finale "The old religion does not care who lives and who dies" (Le Morte d'Arthur). I wish more of Nimueh's backstory had been explored in general.

I also agree with Fimber about why she didn't just kill Uther? She had the power yet she decided to destroy his kingdom instead of just him. And also why didn't she just poison the water with magic? Why did she have to go to the trouble of creating the Afnac?