Talk:The Drawing of the Dark/@comment-1536224-20121222213228/@comment-5621713-20130125042840

If they had let Mordred and Kara go, I wonder if Mordred would have eventually come back. It was the execution of Kara that pushed him over the edege. There is a deleted scene that I saw that had Mordred asking Morgana if they should try talking to Arthur, he tells her that Arthur really has a good heart, and wants to make Camelot a fair and just place for everyone. But, Morgana of course reminds him about how Kara was killed, and says he would be betraying Kara if he didn't try to destroy Arthur. I think that Mordred's defection was conflicted. If he had been present, or told about Arthur giving Kara a way out, I really don't think he would have gone to Morgana's side.

Merlin had a part in Mordred's defection. If he had befriended Mordred instead of alienating him, he would have had an emotional investment in Camelot other than with Arthur, which might have been enough to reason with him, and help him through the whole Kara incident. We have to remember that this is a story, and not real people, so that whatever we think would have been better, or could have changed things is immaterial, it's all about what the writers wanted to do with the story. Unfortunately, they wrote it in a way that most fans are not comfortable with.

The episode the Disir, and even Arthur's Bane, were very well done in terms of foreshadowing. Merlin and Arthur made decisions that they thought would preserve their lives and Camelot, when they actually did the opposite.