User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/The Thrill is Gone/@comment-98.237.96.242-20130107182315/@comment-5102537-20130109124904

Nicely put, ReganX. I agree. It's ironical that in the end it was magic that indeed brought Arthur's and obviously also Camelot's downfall. I've never understood hwo Camelot could replace all its losses in such a short time. Any kingdom that had heard of the wars with Cenred/Morgana/Maorgause and also the loss of soldiers on the search for Morgana would have immediately taken advantage of Camelot's weakness and tried to conquer it. Aside from Camelot's allies. It would have been a much better story if they had indeed tried and if magic had saved it in the end, preferably with Uther still being alive. That way he would have seen what magic can do and that it can be a valuable ally while non-magic-users can be almost as much of a threat as sorceres. It could have given redemption to him and to Morgana who could have changed her mind and saved Camelot together with Merlin. It would have prevented the constant competetion between Arthur and Uther that the writers had put on them by making Arthur betraying his father and by making Uther later evil in order to let Arthur shine.

Following logic, Gwen must have lost against other threats from multiple sides, Camelot was destroyed after Camlann once and for all.

This is interesting: "In terms of alliances, we know from Arthur that the alliance of the Five Kingdoms fell apart since Uther's day. He hoped to rebuild it with Sarrum's help but that didn't work out. "

When did he say this? So it means that after Uther's death the Five Kingdoms weren't so keen to keep up the alliances which actually shows that Camelot was even weaker than ever before and that Arthur wasn't much respected.