Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130804102604/@comment-10341849-20130805024118

FireworksandChimpanzees wrote: Why did Balinor have to die?! I would have loved to see Arthur's reaction when he found out that Balinor was actually Merlin's father. That would be interesting, and raising another "what if". I have posted the question on the section "what if " ideas : "What if Arthur knew Merlin was a dragonlord but didn't know he had magic?"

Back to the episode : I love how Merlin showed his power and subdued Kilgharrah. Kilgharrah was a arrogant, manipulative, selfish dragon. Right from the start he acted like he was the mightiest, wisest, knew-it-all dragon, since he thought he was the last dragon alive and there was no dragonlord left. He can do whatever he wanted. He used and manipulated Merlin. At the end, Merlin showed him who had the last smile. Since this episode, Kilgharrah never dare to challenge or defy Merlin anymore. At least, he would not dare to act so arrogantly.

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?

About Balinor, it was very sad that he had to die so quick. And it was such a shame that Merlin didn't have to time to grieve. I can't imagine that if my father died, I can't cry or tell anybody about it. I must hide all the pain inside me, and not even allowed to cry one bit. Not to mention after that Merlin had to carry the burden of being the last dragonlord and had to defeat the dragon, the dragon he unleashed. The worst part was Merlin didn't even have the chance to bury his father properly. It was sad too, at the end of everything, Merlin didn't try to visit his father grave, and bury him properly. Like it didn't matter after they defeated the dragon. Balinor was not the main character, so when he died, he just died like that. I imagine a better scene would be like, the morning after Merlin defeated Kilgharrah, he and Gaius went to bury Balinor properly and Gaius told Merlin that he would always be there for him. But well, it didn't happen because it was not important enough and it would take extra minutes longer.

Another weird thing was when Arthur and Merlin came back from the battle, why only Gaius and Gwen went to congratulate them? And the impossible part was Gwen hugged Arthur in front of the guards so freely. She was still the servant and nobody knew about their relationship, it would be very weird and inappropiate for a servant to hug a prince, especially in public! Why not Uther and the whole castle came to see how they were doing? And of course, no proper ceremony for the knights died in the battle. Arthur and Merlin won, others didn't matter.