Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130804102604/@comment-10341849-20130810155933

Fimber wrote:

Honestly, even though I liked this episode, I was quite disappointed that there was no confrontation between Kilgharrah and Uther whatsoever. Kilgharrah's attack didn't make sense at all due to the fact that he had always been telling Merlin that he had to protect Arthur, otherwise there will be no Albion. Instead of helping Merlin to protect Arthur, Kilgharrah attacked Arthur twice in this episode and it was only Gwen and Merlin who saved his life. This event made me wonder if what the dragon told Merlin was even the truth, meaning that Arthur has to become king and to unite the lands of Albion, plus lifting the ban of magic. What if Kilgharrah had succeeded? Arthur would have died and Merlin would have lost his destiny (which, as we know, was actually impossible since Merlin's future had been written since the dawn of time...).

Granted, he must have been in total rage and eager to destroy those who had imprisoned him, especially the one who had killed almost his entire race, yet he didn't particularly attack Uther but simply attacked everyone who was running around, no matter who. I would have wished for a confrontation with Uther since the dragon and Uther had a history and there wer surely tons of things to "clarify"...

Was it Uther the one that imprisoned Kilgharrah? Yea, now that you mentioned it, I am thinking about that too. If I wanted to take a revenge, the first thing I want to do is to find the person that chained me for God-knows-how-long and make sure he is the one to die first. After that, then I will destroy the entire kingdom. It was not very clear though who was so powerful to be able to chain Kilgharrah and hold him there.

About killing Arthur, I think although Kilgharrah knew that protecting Arthur was Merlin's destiny, it was not his business if Merlin failed. I mean, if Kilgharrah did killed Arthur and Merlin was not able to fulfill his destiny, it was not really affect him at all, right? Kilgharrah just wanted to take a revenge, wanted to show everybody that he was still so powerful, and nothing can stop him and nothing concerned him except taking his revenge. That was after all one of his intention attacking Camelot.

But this will raise another question though, if Kilgharrah didn't really care about killing Arthur, why was he so persistent reminding Merlin of his destiny? And if it was not because of his so-called-destiny, Merlin wouldn't being so persistent protecting Arthur. And since Arthur was so persistent protecting Camelot to his death (not hiding or running away), Merlin had no choice but to defeat Kilgharrah.

If Kilgharrah couldn't see that far into the future when he persistently reminding Merlin of his destiny, at least with logic he must realized that killing Arthur will force Merlin to defeat him in order to save Arthur. And if Kilgharrah did know about Merlin being the dragonlord, back to the question again, why did he so persistent reminding Merlin about his destiny? And also if Kilgharrah was so manipulative, he would tried his best to AVOID Merlin knowing his destiny of protecting Arthur.

Fimber wrote: I also wondered why Uther/Arthur/Camelot never wanted to investigate who had released the dragon. They thought that Kilgharrah was dead in the end, yet there must have been a traitor in Camelot. Didn't they want to know? Not to mention that the one who had released the dragon must have been a very, very powerful sorcerer. I would be very scared and concerned if  I was Uther, knowing that such a powerful sorcerer was wandering the castle...

I think it was a little too easy to let Arthur just believe that he killed the dragon, especially since neither his sword or any other weapon  showed any blood. If I was Arthur I would really ask myself how I was able to kill such a creature and why I can't remember it. And why Merlin survived and was awake and well...

As for Gwen hugging Arthur in public, this was indeed a little weird since someone could have reported to Uther. Let alone that she couldn't know whether Uther was watching or not.

About nobody investigated who released Kilgharrah in the first place and how Arthur didn't really put any thought about how he defeated the dragon, and all other thing,  like I said, all that matter was Arthur and Merlin succeeded and they were alive. Nothing else matters. That's the ending, and that's how the viewer should celebrate. Indeed, that's what usually the first reaction after watching the ending. I did feel like that and didn't put anymore thought into it until I joined this wiki and discussed about it. That was the nice and sweet ending for the second season. That was that, and that was all. Take it or leave it. They wouldn't and couldn't make it any longer than it should be. This episode was 46 minutes, already 4 minutes longer than other episodes! hahaha :)

Fimber wrote: It's a shame that Balinor died. However, I knew it from the beginning because it was clear that the show wouldn't deal with another strong character that would have complicated the situations. It was the easiest way to kill him off, especially since Merlin needed to become a dragonlord. I felt very sorry for both of them.

About Balinor, yea, I got a feeling that he would not survive too..but I just wish it will be at least longer than that. At least make it one more episode about how Merlin had his time with his lost father, going a journey with him to see Hunith but failed and he died. That would be a nice filler episode, right? Not like some pointless filler episodes. Yea...but then if Balinor didn't die in that exact episode, Merlin wouldn't and couldn't become the last dragonlord, and again, that episode was the last episode of the season. It can't be longer than that. *sigh*