User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on Merlin's finale/@comment-4814726-20121225013014

I feel like the focus of this episode, Merlin's magic reveal to Arthur and them rebuilding trust/friendship, should have been earlier in the year. That way there could have been more focus on the feeling of loss and saying goodbye, having proper endings. What I wish Arthur had said to Merlin was that he was a brother to him, not "Thank you." That would have been way more emotional and it would have strengthened there friendship. Arthur was still coming to terms with magic when he died, so it was more about that than actually saying goodbye.

I might be being a bit hard to please, saying all I want is a reveal and now once i have it it should have been sooner, but it's how I feel. Shoot me.

If these key elements of the show had been touched earlier, instead of cramming it all in 40 minutes, then I think many of us would be feeling as though we got a better deal. Since then other things Aithusa, Morgana, the magic ban, and all that good stuff could hae been addressed properly as well.

Oh well, off to fanfiction. I'm sure I can find these things there.