User blog comment:Morganaforever/Morganaforever's Episode Review: Arthur's Bane, Part 1/@comment-4814726-20121007042108/@comment-5607183-20121011101456

I have watched the episode again and Arthur definately had excalibur when he went to talk to Merlin about why he was upset. You can see it stuck in the grass when he gets up to talk to merlin. I originally thought that it was knocked out of Arthur's hand when he fought in the battle with Ruadan and that he just picked up another random sword to fight with to protect himself. However, I've watched again and I'm not sure it was Arthur's sword that we saw dropped or even excalibur he is using when he is fighting to get to Leon. It definately wasn't excalibur at the end of the episode when mordred appears and the bandit guy (sorry forgotten his name) said 'the king of Camelot' or whatever and he knew it was Arthur from the sword?!? Its a mystery or more likely a bad continuity error. Maybe it will turn but again in ep 2 or it is indeed on the battlefield which would be a problem as we all know what kilgarrah said in series 1. Sorry this is my first post and a bit long but it has really been bugging me. All in all though I loved the episode and I'm really pleased Merlin is back