Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130727145913/@comment-10341849-20130728124047

Hello Aithusa, it's been a while for me to comment or to be active again too. Although mine was because I was kinda busy latelly.

I got some things I can't quite understand. First of all, I just noticed that Uther didn't seem to have his own manservant or anybody who attended his needs. Even when he was ill, Gaius told Leon to watch him closely for changes. And so many other times too when Uther got sick. Especially when he lost his mind after Morgana's betrayal. Gwen was the one taking care of him, why?

Like I said earlier in my blog, Merlin was practically yelling a spell behind Arthur when suddenly the castle started to collapse out of nowhere, but Arthur didn't notice or hear a thing. Well well, plot convenience some might say.

Another thing, when Arthur and Merlin arrived at Camelot, everybody was asleep. Arthur then worried about Uther and tried to find him, in the middle of his worry mind, he stopped to Morgana's chamber and carried Gwen to bed. It must be Morgana's chamber, because why would Morgana and Gwen would be there if it was not her room. And Uther was asleep in his own room, it must be because he was sick and even though he forced himself to work or read and fell asleep in his chair, it must be in his own room. Why Arthur didn't go directly to Uther's room and stopped at Morgana's room first? When Arthur said it himself, "this is the first place they are going to look". But apparently it was not the first place he looked. lol..:)

The one that confuses me most is this, Merlin was told that Morgana was the one who caused everybody to stay asleep. Was that mean Merlin thought Morgana was evil already, or Merlin still believed that she was just used? And if Merlin believed Morgana was evil, then it would be useless to tell her what was going on, because she was the one making it happen and of course she would not withdrawn especially she would not drink the poison herself. If Merlin believed Morgana just being used, at the end of the episode, when Gaius told him that Morgana didn't use her gift for good, Merlin didn't say anything about it.

And then, when Morgana told Morgause she was on her side, Morgause put Morgana to sleep and used her as tool without telling her that she was the vessel. I know that Morgause probably had not trusted her yet to tell her, but it would be much different outcome for everything if Morgause told her. Morgana would probably not getting poisoned by Merlin because she would extra careful with him. And at the end, Morgana didn't get angry even the slightest bit to Morgause. After all, she was just being used and poisoned because Morgause didn't trust her enough to tell her what was her plan.

Anyway, this was a great episode, very intense. And the funny part were when Merlin tried to wake Gaius. I laughed so loud when Gaius suddenly sat up, opened his eyes, and smiled so foolishly but didn't really wake up. And he kept that expression still when he fell from the chair, and when Uther snored like a pig when they carried him away from his room.

As for Kilgharrah, he was thousand years old, Merlin was no match for his manipulation and tricks.