User blog comment:Forestfire3/Albion's Greatest King/@comment-4879894-20120304093802

I think that it's quite subtle. In the reign of Uther, the king was blind to the fables, he said repeatedly that he did not believe in such gibberish, unlike Merlin and Gaius who always took fables and legends very seriously : The Afanc, The Griffin, Cornelius Sigan, Medhir, the Manticore, etc. Now It's Merlin's turn to write legends and fables. Remember, Merlin told Nimueh he would make Arthur King and she would never see that day. That's exactly what he does and we may retitle the episode "The making of Arthur". It's called by a french name "Mise en abyme". That's the revenge of the fable or the revenge of Merlin. And look at the face of Merlin when Arthur pulled out the sword from the stone : He just made up a story, he just used magic so the sword can be pulled out and he's moved to tears. He is believing in his own "gibberish". That's amazing and I love it.