User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/The Thrill is Gone/@comment-98.237.96.242-20130107182315

The great dragon said that Merlin didn't fail his destiny, but we don't know what he meant by that. On face value, it seems like that means the golden age begins and magic is allowed back into the realm. But could that mean that Merlin is still on course with a destiny far off in the future? We don't know; it was never explained. This is just another example of the poor writing that the fans have put up with since the show began five years ago.We don't know if Gwen was strong enough to bring magic back. We don't know if the people would accept it. We don't know how long this golden age was supposed to last. If it was short....lets say a hundred years ......that would a blimp in human history. I agree that my thoughts on a golden age would be one that lasted for a thousand or more years, but who knows what Capps and Murphy had in the mind.... if anything. Gwen would have needed a strong rudder to support her. Merlin would have had to fill that role since he had the magic to make things happen. I would agree with you that it would have been a scenario for magic if Arthur had lived since he had the strength inherently to make it happen.

The judgment of the Triple Goddess is pivotal in the saga. Merlin's bad advice allowed the prophecy to come true. Was this meant to happen or could Merlin have prevented it? Why didn't Merlin go back to the Disir and try to make things right? We know in our hearts that Merlin would have done that.....he did that with Nimueh in E13 of season 1. The producers didn't allow that to happen because it didn't fit into their story line. They made Merlin a passenger on a voyage of doom rather than a active agent.

I do have a theory about why Arthur hasn't risen since the 6th century. Truly, Britain has never been in danger of being destroyed after the Anglo-Saxon invasion at Arthur's time. Even Hitler had no way to get across the English Channel or the bombers to hit anything except in the southeast section of England. The same is true with Napoleon. Britain's navy stifled both tyrants. In both wars, Britain knew that other nations would join her coalition to end the threats. Britain was one of the European nations least affected by the religious wars. So a threat to destroy Britain would still have to exist in the future.

But getting back to the post-Camlann days, the story was a victim of the producers who decided to massacre full scale at the end of series. Capps, Murphy and Jones always said that they had a five year plan, but the story line never reflected it. The first two seasons it was a new danger every week; the last three seasons were always the same with Morgana as the resident evil. I think the opposite, they had no vision and winged it. When the actors grew tired of the unimaginative scripts and said no to Season 6, they were caught by surprise and threw Camlann together at the end. The producers knew that they were on the way out with Shine, so they didn't care. Maybe they even ended this way to make a spin-off more difficult. The problem is that we are speculating over a story line was made without any concern about the saga. We should all get together and write our ending just based on logical sequence...I bet we do a much better job. :)