Board Thread:What If?/@comment-69.148.49.98-20140113232611/@comment-24629321-20140305135916

When I first saw the preview for the episode "The Witchfinder" I really thought they were going to go that direction. I was hoping the smoke in the forest might turn out to be Merlin teaching Morgana to use spells, and that when the witchfinder discovered they were hiding something, they'd claim it was a relationship to cover up the fact that they'd been practicing magic. Of course that's not how the episode turned out at all! I was very disappointed that Merlin never revealed his magic to Morgana. I agree with the last post that it probably still wouldn't have prevented Morgana's turn to evil... but at least then Merlin wouldn't have been able to blame himself for never guiding her in the right direction. Which of course is probably why it never happened—the writers loved to torture poor Merlin at every turn it seemed! Romantic interest for Merlin was definitely lacking in this show after they stopped hinting at Merlin & Gwen in the early episodes, and even some small relationship with Morgana would have been a great solution.