User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on Merlin's finale/@comment-4135736-20121225111807

I honestly HATED (no offense to those who enjoyed it) the final episode of this show, it was just pathetic in my opinion and here are my reasons:

1) Arthur, Morgana and Merlin all fail their destinies - Arthur died as the naive, oblivious, somewhat childish prince/King he has been since Series 4 (he never became the great King of Legend), Merlin was reduced to a modern day postman and not as the great sorcerer of Legend (plus Albion wasn't united nor was magic returned to Camelot plus he never got the credit he so deserved) and Morgana just died as the evil, insane, one-dimentional sorceress she has been since Series 3 (her destiny was to bring back the old ways but where was that).

2) MERLIN IN MODERN TIMES WTF: That was just ridiculus in my opinion because this is a show based in times of history, seeing Merlin as a postman was laughable (with a background truck) and just in my opinion makes a mockery of the original Arthurian Legend.

3) No reason as to why Aithusa was so loyal to Morgana, this leaves more plotholes in her character, instead of that pointless scene of Kilgharrah saying he was old and dying, Merlin should have questioned him about Aithusa when he had that one chance.

4) Gwaine getting wasted, alreadly this season he was reduced into a one dimentional character but come on, killing him off was silly since Merlin, Arthur, Gwen and the other Knight's weren't by his side and he was just forgotton. Also I was betting on him finding out Merlin's magic and becoming closer to Merlin but instead they became rather distant.

5) No battle between Kilgharrah and Aithusa: This is one thing I have been dying to watch since Aithusa sided with Morgana.

6) No duel between Merlin and Morgana: Morgana again got knocked out by Merlin easily (when he casted all those lightning spells) plus in their last confrontation no fight at all, just Morgana attacking Merlin and him stabbing her with Excalibur and killing her.

7) Arthur and Mordred killing each other without much of a fight: I expected a more severe fight between the two - a fight to the death.

8) No mourning of Arthur's (or Gwaine's) death by the whole of Camelot just Gwen becoming the sole Queen of Camelot.

And 9) Gaius still alive when other characters are now dead while Merlin "became a postman", I love Gaius but I think he has been alive for way too long, he should have been killed off back in either Series 3 or Series 4 since we didn't see much independance in Merlin.

Sorry about my rant but I am now glad the show has ended, it has disappointed me too much (There wasn't much progress, especially after Series 3 ended - all we got to see was all the main characters failing their main destinies as I have stated in my first point) and I would have turned off if there was indeed a Series 6.