Talk:The Fires of Idirsholas/@comment-5674726-20131126001344/@comment-5674726-20131212002025

I found it irritating that Merlin was forgiven every single misconduct whereas some others were always blamed and criticised.

Imagine how it would have been treated had Morgana released the Dorocha or a similarly destructive force in order to heal Morgause. Not only would she have been clearly portrayed as being in the wrong, there is no way that the narrative would have allowed her to be "rewarded" for her actions with Morgause's recovery, it either wouldn't have worked or it would have worked but Morgause would have been killed five minutes later. Even if Morgana did it without realising how destructive it would be - something that is not true of Merlin, as he saw Kilgharrah's rampage of revenge in the Crystal of Neathid - she would still be portrayed as wholly responsible for the fallout.

Merlin is never held accountable for releasing Kilgharrah and the following episode treated Balinor's death as the "real" tragedy, not the deaths of the innocent citizens of Camelot.