User blog comment:Edrea/Why so many bad things happened because of Merlin?/@comment-208.102.121.203-20130624055434

Honestly I don't think logic was a big concern for the showrunners, or character development. In fact nearly all of the plot development was shallow and its confusing and frustrating if you try to make sense of it. In order to enjoy it I have to interpret things that should have been or could have stood to be explained within the show, for instance while watching The Wicked Day, I just assumed that Merlin's actions were the best he could do. If I look at it logically, I see that yeh, Merlin essentailly used Uther's life as a bargaining chip to use Arthur, and that his actions were selfish and killed Uther in the end. However this characteristic doesn't fit with the rest of who Merlin is, so I think the showrunners were just trying to come up with a twisty episode in the easiest way possible. As soon as it was revealed that magic being unbanned would be the result of saving Uther, I knew that it would fail and Uther would die. That's how shallow and overused the thing was.

The same goes for a lot of plotines in the show.