User blog comment:Fimber/The "Merlin" finale ("The Diamond of the Day")/@comment-5253758-20121224162057

Your post is great! I have been following your posts for a while and I've realised that you have lost complete faith to the show. Please tell me if I'm wrong but I couldn't help but notice it. I can understand why you don't like some newly added elements and there are indeed some plot holes, but why are you so judgemental of it? It feels to me like you only watch it to start critisizing it later... No offence of course!

What you wrote in this post is true, although I have to disagree with some of your points. For example Gwen saying that Arthur is a better man than his father does not automaticaly mean that she wants magic in Camelot. Arthur is a good king as far as normal people go. But his "fear" of magic does not let him accept it. Uther was a good king as far as normal people go too. He built a great kingdom. But he did a lot of bad things not only to magical beings, but also to normal people. He built a kingdom based on racism to magic. I think that Gwen, Morgana and Merlin told Arthur that because they thought that he was never going to be like his father, persecuting magic like that or killing innocent people only for precaution. But it makes sense Gwen fearing magic. Not trusting it does not mean deletion of what she said to Arthur. She is just scared of what people who have it can become. Morgana was her closest friend and she saw how she ended up after realising that she had magic.,,

Morgana did a terrible mistake by not killing Merlin this time. I suppose she didn't do it because of three reasons: because he is Ermys, because she is not THAT bad of a person and because he is Merlin. Firsty, she wanted him to suffer while being trapped with no magical abilities because he was Emrys, the great sorcerer that she feared for a lot of time. He was supposed to be her undoing but she showed him otherwise by doing this. Not killing him made her feel stronger because she actually destroyed every chance of him being able to escape. She made him lose his hope! She could not have thought that Balinor would appear all of a sudden and save him! Seconldy, I don't think that she wants to kill him like that. Yes, Morgana has done some bad things, but she never killed a person before without having a reason to do it. She is not that bad! And lastly, Merlin was her friend. He betrayed her and she wants him to feel like she felt. For her he is Emrys, the person she fears the most, but it is also Merlin her ex friend. And I explained the reason why she didn't kill Emrys above. Merlin though, her friend, a servant, someone who had magic and who never told her. He chose other things instead of her. Trapping him like that was her revenge to her former friend.

Also, Gwen becoming queen does not mean that she lost her affection for the poor. She would never do that. I think as the years went by, she more and more started to realise that everything has its consequenses. She knows that it is war. She knows that a lot of people will die. So if she said "We will save everyone" then everybody would complain about her being stupid by saying that!

So, I don't know why you try to find all the bad stuff about the show and even if you find the good ones you critisize them, but I know that everybody can have his own opinion and it is accepted. I hope I won't get any negativity about this post from you, I only wanted to share my opinion. If I became too personal, please forgive me.