User blog comment:Fimber/Did Uther win at last? Résumé of Merlin and the finale - The Diamond of the Day Part 2/@comment-176.249.115.102-20130103164351/@comment-5102537-20130106160241

Oops, I forgot. As for the Five Kingdoms, I don't think that the ones you listed all belonged to the Five Kingdoms since Uther had already united them in "Sweet Dreams" and Caerleon, for example, was definitely not among them. It's a miracle why Arthur tried to unite the Five Kingdoms when they were already united and that suddenly more and more kingdoms popped out of nowhere that belonged to the Five Kingdoms and would have made them ten or more kingdoms... Plotholes again.

As for the question if Uther has won, I was referring to the fact that obviously, in our present times of progress and technology, magic had died out. Yes, he lost in regard to his children who both died and both at the hands of magic, and in regard to a serving girl ruling Camelot. However, when it comes to magic, he won. In case that magic was still practiced in our present times because the future we saw on Merlin has nothing to do with our world, Uther has lost really, really everything. Absolutely everything. The love of his children and his wife, his legacy, the fight against magic, his honour, both children dead, his wife dead, he himself dead, servants taking over Camelot... and then he suffering for eternity in the afterlife. Could it be more sadistical?

However, it seemed that the final scene was referring to our times, so magic was outruled or maybe even wiped out with the exception of Merlin being around and maybe some magic being dormant somewhere, in Avalon most likely. So Uther won the fight against magic. And more, he was proven right in the end. With the death/end of magic, the world could finally progress. The fights and wars among normal humans was/is controllable, magic was not. Magic/Morgana/sorcerers brought on Arthur's downfall and we don't know what Gwen had achieved when ruling alone. Every sorcerer, witch, magic-user who encountered Camelot wanted to destroy Camelot or to kill people, and most of them didn't do it because they wanted revenge on Uther. Actually, Uther was really proven right in the end. Without Merlin, Morgana and magic, he would still rule Camelot, it would still prosper and no Camlan would have happened. Arthur would also still be alive.