User blog comment:Fimber/Did Uther win at last? Résumé of Merlin and the finale - The Diamond of the Day Part 2/@comment-176.249.115.102-20130103164351/@comment-5102537-20130106095908

Thanks for your comment.

I agree that Igraine's death may have given Uther the final push after all the destruction and corruption of magic before he took the throne. The show demonstrated constantly that magic was dangerous and that most magic-users and sorcerers weren't quite goodhearted, especially when it came to the High Priestesses. Morgause, Nimueh, Morgana, all of them were bad and ruthless. After the land was almost destroyed by magic, Igraine's death mst likely was the final push to let Uther want to eradicate magic once and for all.

However, since Merlin's fate has been written since the dawn of time, everyone else's fate was also written since the dawn of time, because Merlin wouldn't have this fate it it wasn't for Arthur's birth and the Great Purge and the ban of magic. So actually, all people were only puppets on a string and fulfilled their destinies. Merlin was much too indifferent in regard to his own destiny and the prophecy. I think it would have been a good idea to show him looking for information, whether he gets it or not. He actually based his entire life and all of his decisions on a few sentences and a blurry vision only.

The fact that he didn't call for Kilgharrah when Arthur was about to die is only lazy writing in my opinion. Since Kilgharrah told Merlin in the beginning already that he must protect Arthur at all costs, merlin had no reason to not call him in order to save Arthur.

When Tom was imprisoned, Merlin didn't do anything to help him. What I actually meant was that Gwen should have wondered why Merlin didn't help all of them much sooner, before the battle started and why he hadn't helped Tom back then when he was so very powerful. She doesn't know the things we know, so she actually should have wondered about a few things. It was a new information to her that Merlin was a sorcerer. Naturally, the question arises what he had done the whole time and what chances he had to help several people but maybe didn't (from Arthur's and Gwen's point of view). Arthur didn't even wonder why Merlin hadn't helped Uther before Arthur decided to use magic but instead was willing to let him die.

As for Uther being possessed as a spirit, I wish you were right. Alas, Julian Murphy said that they brought him back that way because he has always been that way, selfish, tyrannical and dictatorial. Needless to say that this was total nonsense and that we were being shown a different Uther. They simply needed to make him subsequently evil in order to let Arthur shine in comparison to him, that's all. Very cheap.

Morgause told Arthur that she knew Igraine very well. You're right, she is too young to have actually known Igraine, that's why I was wondering.

Of course, if Morgana and Morgause were really half-sisters, they can only be related through their mother Vivienne. I just wanted to know for sure because Vivienne obviously had three different men - Morgause's father, Gorlois and Uther. But Morgause's father was never mentioned and I would have liked to know why she was smuggled out of Camelot when she was a baby and who her father was.

Igraine thinking that Uther sacrificed her is simply a plothole. They ignored what they showed us in season one and most of all overlooked the reason for the Great Purge which would be illogical if Uther had sacrificed Igraine willingly. I've alway suspected Igraine to be a shade since she looked normal. The ghost of the druid boy, Uther and Balinor were glowing blue, yet Igraine was totally normals as if she was alive. It would make sense if she was a shade. Alas,  the show runners said that she was the real Igraine, so plotholes and inconsistencies all over. I'm so tired of it and 'm so glad that this is finally all over.