Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130804102604/@comment-5102537-20130810110808

Edrea wrote:

Make me wondering, if Kilgharrah knew about Merlin's destiny, knew about Arthur's Bane, about Morgana being an evil witch, having he ability to see into the future, didn't he suppose to know that Merlin was the dragonlord? If he knew from the start, he should knew that Merlin was going to defeat him, then did he try to manipulate and used Merlin before it happened? That's a good question, Edrea. However, Kilgharrah didn't sem to know about everything, which was evident when he didn't know about Arthur's bane in the episode in question. He was surprised when Merlin told him about what the druid said. But, indeed, he should have known about such an important thing as Merlin becoming the last dragonlord.

Basically, Kilgharrah forced this to happen by his attack on Camelot once he was free. In case he didn't know it seems that this important information was being held back from him (by whom- or whatever).

Honestly, even though I liked this episode, I was quite disappointed that there was no confrontation between Kilgharrah and Uther whatsoever. Kilgharrah's attack didn't make sense at all due to the fact that he had always been telling Merlin that he had to protect Arthur, otherwise there will be no Albion. Instead of helping Merlin to protect Arthur, Kilgharrah attacked Arthur twice in this episode and it was only Gwen and Merlin who saved his life. This event made me wonder if what the dragon told Merlin was even the truth, meaning that Arthur has to become king and to unite the lands of Albion, plus lifting the ban of magic. What if Kilgharrah had succeeded? Arthur would have died and Merlin would have lost his destiny (which, as we know, was actually impossible since Merlin's future had been written since the dawn of time...).

Granted, he must have been in total rage and eager to destroy those who had imprisoned him, especially the one who had killed almost his entire race, yet he didn't particularly attack Uther but simply attacked everyone who was running around, no matter who. I would have wished for a confrontation with Uther since the dragon and Uther had a history and there wer surely tons of things to "clarify"...

I also wondered why Uther/Arthur/Camelot never wanted to investigate who had released the dragon. They thought that Kilgharrah was dead in the end, yet there must have been a traitor in Camelot. Didn't they want to know? Not to mention that the one who had released the dragon must have been a very, very powerful sorcerer. I would be very scared and concerned if  I was Uther, knowing that such a powerful sorcerer was wandering the castle...

I think it was a little too easy to let Arthur just believe that he killed the dragon, especially since neither his sword or any other weapon  showed any blood. If I was Arthur I would really ask myself how I was able to kill such a creature and why I can't remember it. And why Merlin survived and was awake and well...

As for Gwen hugging Arthur in public, this was indeed a little weird since someone could have reported to Uther. Let alone that she couldn't know whether Uther was watching or not.

But I liked the scene where Uther was relieved to see Arthur being well and alive. Such little and subtile scenes were very rare on the show, but the rare ones were great.

It's a shame that Balinor died. However, I knew it from the beginning because it was clear that the show wouldn't deal with another strong character that would have complicated the situations. It was the easiest way to kill him off, especially since Merlin needed to become a dragonlord. I felt very sorry for both of them.