Board Thread:What If?/@comment-110.174.240.54-20141212143231

This episode annoys me so much. The Disir have given Arthur an ultimatum. Allow magic, or all Camelot fails. So Arthur is sitting at the campfire and straight up asks Merlin about whether to accept magic. He even asks 'what if magic isn't so bad'. And Merlin straight up says 'there can be no place for magic in Camelot'. This kid has spent years waiting for Arthur to be at a point where he can accept magic. He has been waiting, hoping for the day when he could tell Arthur the truth without being executed for it. Now he has the chance to set it all right, to convince Arthur that it would be ok, and HE SCREW UP. If he had convinced Arthur to allow magic, everything would have been fine. He wouldn't have had to hide. Morganna would not have been able to get as many followers as she did, because magic users would not hate Arthur. Mordred probably would have either died from poison, or his story line wouldn't have been an issue. Basically, everything Merlin has been hoping for, saving Arthur, allowing magic, being himself finally. All these things would have been possible. But he was so worried about the future, about a possible fate, that he forgot about his destiny. This was the worst episode for me, because even though you know the show had to end in tragedy because that's the Arthurian legend, I wasn't expecting it to be all Merlin's fault, because he failed. And because it comes at the beginning of the season, everything that goes wrong after this is his fault and you just want to shake him and be like why! You had  the chance to make this right. It basically completely invalidates everything he has done. They try to make it seem like he succeeded after Arthur's death, but that was a cop out.  