User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617043226

Nice blogpost. Though for most of the knghts. it'll be hard to judge how they'll react since they haven't got much backstory or character development.

From what we know of Gwaine, he has experience with magic, but it wasn't all bad. He knows a couple of miscellaneous facts, like the iron ore in The Secret Sharer, and in his appearing episode he knew about the magic blades, saying he saw their work before. So what other experence with magic has he had. It can't have been all bad since most of his life he didn't even live in Camelot. However he also was pretty cool with attacking Dragoon, so his time in Camelot has had an effect on his opinion of magic if he had a good one. And magic won't be the biggest problem Gwaine will have. You wouldn't know from s4, but he considers Merlin to be his first and only friend for a while. So the fact that Merlin kept such a big secret will drive a wedge btwn them more than the magic itself.

As for Elyan, he's been possessed by a spirit, and if Morgause and Morgana is the only example he has of magic users, it won't be that peachy. He and Merlin didn't seem to be that close, like they got on when they were together, but they hardly ever were together. So the magic will be more of a problem than the lying bit.

Percival doesn't really have any agenda, but his family was killed by cenred's army and hates Morgana, and if she is the only sorceress he knows than he is like Elyan. If all sorcerers are like Morgana to him then he might even hate Merlin.

Leon grew up as a knight of Camelot, very loyal to the Pendragons and having no problem killing sorcerers. He and Merlin aren't very good friends, like Elyan and Percival they simply get on well when they rarely spend time together. He will hate Merlin all the more for 'fooling' him and 'weedling into the court'. He will not react well.

Gwen blames magic for the death ofher father(what is with these people? The guard killed tom! Not magic! The guy who stabbed Uther with a SWORD killed him! Not magic!) But she said so herself in that deleted scene from the wicked day so... oh well. She sees Morgana as being 'corrupted' by magic. So I agree with you Gwen will not take the magic or the lying as well as so many people suspect.

Arthur I think will end up banishing Merlin. I hope this happens in the beginning or middle of the series so that they make up on or before the season finale. For I think that it will take a few episodes for Arthur and Merlin to get over all the hurt. Arthur will see another close friend, hi closest, to have been using "the essence of evil" right under his nose since he ever met him. We also know Arthur has some... anger management issues(Lancelot Du Lac). So he will probably attack Merlin at one point. His reaction will bring tears from Merlin, Arthur, and several thousand viewers across the globe if those same thousand viewers cried at Balinor's, Freya's, or even the scene where Merlin and Arthur talk about Gaius' "betrayal" in the secret sharer. I can't predict much more accurately than that.

Now with all my predicted reactions, they've been bad. But of course they'll be bad for a while, something like this will HURT for a long time. But now, in Merlin, trust was rekindled between the most unlikely and likely couple in Camelot. Arthur and Guinevere. In my opinion, that whole love triangle was just lazy writing. And their make-up was as well. I think Merlin should have gotten angsty for once in front of Arthur. He should've said something like "If the woman I loved was still alive, I would thank the gods(since he is supposedly pagan) by loving her every second of every day. I would care for her, I would do anything for her. Anything. And I certainly would spend all the time I could with her." And in doing so cause millions of girls around the world to swoon and make Arthur realize not only that he should back together with Gwen, but that Merlin has feelings other than happy, and that he shouldn't push him away.

Back on subject, unfortunetely, we are placing this very delicate and epic moment of this world popular tv series on the shoulders of the same merlin writers who threw together the love triangle breakup and the anticlimatic makeup of arthur and gwen. I also think the sword in the stone scene of arthur pulling out the sword was anticlimatic, not because it was Merlin's magic that freed the sword, but because like Lancelot Du Lac it was thrown together at the series finale without a plausible explanation behind it(referring to the sudden hundred people gathered round having been told the legend Merlin just made up on the spot since they were born. Oh, and that magic was still outlawed so the not-yet-dubbed Excalibur is in the hands of someone who may or may not do "great evil" with it. Oh! AND the fact that someone pulling a sword out of a stone is obviously magical, yet all said people who hate magic think nothing of it and applaud ecstaticly. I conclude this parentheses with a ??????????????????)

Anyways! Back to subject! As I was saying, this reveal has been placed on the shoulders of these writers. So there is every chance that the regaining of trust between all the characters and Merlin will be as simple as the regaining of trust between Arthur and Gwen. PLEASE PLEASE NO!!!!!

I may comment some more on this but I've been working on this one through TWO, not one but TWO Merlin episodes. So chow!