Talk:Le Morte d'Arthur/@comment-178.43.232.29-20140323215303/@comment-5102537-20140324125122

Kilgharrah was outraged because Merlin told him that he will never free him. I suppose another reason was that Merlin had killed Nimueh. At that point of time there seem to have been something going on and that Kilgharrah and Nimueh somehow worked together. At least I got the impression. Both told Merlin that together they could achieve so much and both manipulated Merlin into doing what they wanted him to do. When Kilgharrah told him how to save Arthur he didn't tell Merlin that the price would be someone close to him (by the way, it obviously was the same with Uther and Igraine in order to make him agree to the deal - I'm still convinced that Arthur's birth was wanted by the Old Religion or by some forces of the Old Religion, Nimueh and Kilgharrah being part of it). Neither did Nimueh tell Merlin. In the end, Merlin did exactly what they wanted him to do (Nimueh told Merlin that Arthur was never meant to die at her hands), until Merlin decided to keep Kilgharrah in the dungeons and to kill Nimueh.

Morgana's comment was something I've been wondering about ever since. I doubt that they had planned to make her the ultimate villainess of the show at that point of time. Maybe Morgana meant that much more is to come in regard to magic. It almost seemed as if the episode had left out a bit of what Morgana had foreseen. It would have been clearer if she had seen Nimueh and maybe the cure for Arthur and the consequences. She probably referred to the dragon she had seen in her visions since she saw Arthur lying sick which confirmed her in her visions coming true.