Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-82.156.4.128-20121224212052/@comment-68.228.20.37-20200428224526

What if the driver of the blue truck was Arthur, driving by Merlin almost ignoring him just like in his prior life? That would at least give some sense to an otherwise senseless and hurried ending. So disappointing. So many things that could have happened to enrich the final events, which were instead done without wonder or interesting twists. There were great opportunities to tie things together and make a cohesive wrap up. Instead we end up with a meaningless truck, as if the writers got fired and were too pissed off to complete the series with their prior high level of enchanting storytelling. I would have loved to see irony like the white dragon (Morgana’s pet) kill Morgana upon Merlin’s command instead of the boring 1000th simple sword death of the series; and taken under Kilgharrah’s mentorship to help Arthur in the future, with the older dragon renewed and helping magic and the next dragons develop for good, not dying and depleting the ability for the last dragon to even become a real one (one that has dragon knowledge and skills of their kind) Why have Merlin bring this dragon into the world to only have it tormented, undeveloped, and abandoned? Why never use ‘The Key’s knowledge for anything after forming a positive relationship and having that available to forge Arthur’s return or anything else good? Where was the cup of life they had secured? They could have put it in the boat with him or given us some hope for a return with it. Why not let Arthur see all which had been done for him by magic over the years in some way like visions from the crystals so that he does not die clueless as to how many times his life was saved by magic? Define a path for his return instead of showing he never did? Merlin remaining for centuries as the foolish bumpkin wishing and waiting for Arthur to deliver on any of the positive outcomes promised but which never happened? Why? Arthur did not do any apparent great things and was cursed by the mother goddess for being essentially just like his dad. For years the series promised greatness from Arthur—none apparent. Then suddenly dead with no heir, no turn around of oppressive practices in his kingdom. Ugg. Lost opportunities. I still loved watching it. Great connection emotionally, and visually very entertaining. Other then the poorly executed ending, it was a magnificent series. Grateful to have seen the first parts.