User blog comment:Aneton./Thoughts on the ending/@comment-76.97.120.16-20121226154242/@comment-5912001-20121226162323

Exactly! His destiny was never fulfilled, or at least not to the level that they talked about during the entire show. They made it seem like he was going to totally unite the land and create a great era of peace (I assumed with stuff like the legalization of magic) with Merlin at his side as an equal. None of that happened. Way to create an amazing show and then just butcher the ending.