Thread:MissingMerlin/@comment-6573663-20130218192837/@comment-6573663-20130219103358

There was a comment made by Julian Murphy at Comic-Con in 2010. He and Johnny Capps were promoting Season 3 and confirmed that Season 5 had been commissioned. The reporter asks if Season 5 will be the last (and adds that she hopes it isn't) to which Julian Murphy says "You can never say never in that situation but what I can say is that OUR end of Merlin is not THE end" and he repeats statement a few minutes later.

Fans take this to mean that there is no reason a 6th Season cannot be made and the most popular theory at the moment is that when Merlin falls asleep in the Crystal Cave at the end of Ep12 after speaking with his father, everything from that point on is just one possible future that Merlin sees. If you watch this episode on DVD Merlin wakes from his sleep after being healed - he has no cuts on his face and hands. Fans see no reason why Season 6 could not start from that point. We could then see the scene between Emrys and Morgana which was promised in the opening epsiode of Season 5 when she is lying on the battlefield and holds her hand up asking Emrys to help her and Emrys says "Is this really what you wanted Morgana?" - we never saw that scene in the final cut and it doesn't appear in any scenes that were cut. So where did it go?

Eoin was at the Midlands Comic-Con on 16 Feb 2013 and said that he and Colin both thought Merlin's magic was going to be revealed earlier in Season 5. He was asked "If Gwaine hadn't died would you have come back and done another series?" to which he answers that he would, but they weren't given a choice. This calls into question Bradley James's comments in early December that the cast were offered a 6th season but he turned it down. It seems to have been an executive decision but I wasn't there so I cannot say for certain.

What I do know is that I am part of the merlin2return campaign to bring Merlin back and that it has the support of TV executives, Networks and cast members and that if we get sufficient people taking action at the same time then we will be successful. This doesn't just mean people clicking 'Like' on the FB page but signing up to the official Global website and agreeing to do whatever is needed. It needs effort but if something is worth fighting for then it has to be worth it, doesn't it?