Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130629093831/@comment-5102537-20130712144123

Selecasticon wrote: Igraine was not real to me... Dead characters returning appear all in black and white against the colored background. From Freya, Balinor, and even Uther himself. Not to mention Igraine and the children drowned in "The Tears of Uther Pendragon". Even the druid boy in "A Herald of a New Age".

Agreed. Everything would make much more sense if she wasn't real. Not to mention that ever since "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon", we know that the horn was the tool to visit the afterlife but no one ever mentioned that there was a possibility to get the dead from the afterlife into the world of the living, other than opening the veil or looking back at the spirits in the spirit world which gives them the possibility to escape or drags them into the world of the living.

The most logical explanation would be that Igraine was a shade (she turned her son against his father, after all) or simply a trick.