User blog comment:Aithusa07/List of Plotholes from Merlin/@comment-2001:569:F996:6F00:892F:FEB9:CC27:6E08-20180425195627

What bugs me the most is that when Aithusa hatched apparently Merlin and Kilgarrah were both like “well good luck raising yourself!” Because the way the episode ended was vague and so I thought Kilgarrah took in and decided to teach and raise Aithusa seeing as he’s no longer the last of his kind or at least Merlin would ask Kilgarrah to look after Aithusa until he was able to talk and live on his own.

But, what I was really hoping to see was Merlin becoming like an arthurian Hagrid and take Aithusa home with him because I could just picture Aithusa raising hell in their home and after a few months Gaius shouting “Merlin we can’t keep him any longer this is the third time this week he’s melted my vials!” and Merlin could gift him to Arthur once Arthur was king. I had high hopes for Aithusa but he wasn’t really a big role in the show. I do remember reading that there was a red and a white dragon battling in some versions of the Arthurian legend and that they represented the battle between the Brits and Saxons, so maybe Aithusa’s size and demeanour represented Morgana and the Saxons?

Also it bugs me that Merlin spent the whole time trying to prevent the bad ending from happening he stopped focusing on making the good ending happen. How could he tell Arthur not to welcome Magic into the kingdom?! He had a solid opportunity to make a big difference right there. And in condemning Morgana and Mordred his lack of support turned them evil! Kilgarrah definitely shouldn’t have kept telling Merlin how to treat them because those two could have helped convince Arthur magic isn’t evil.

End rambling! This is an old show but I still love it!