User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/By Jove! I think I may have figured it out!/@comment-3325613-20121215100550

Excellent blog post! I hadn't thought of this, but you're absolutely right! I guess it's expectable that at the end of his "carrier" (regarding Series 5 as the last) Merlin's character can't be as "shallow" as he might have appeared in Series 1: now he knows everything he's tried to build is at stake and he just can't turn a blind eye (like how he did with Mordred in S1Ep8 or Morgana in S2Ep3) hoping things might not turn out how they had been prophesied in the future.