Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131103103427/@comment-5102537-20131106112234

ReganX wrote: As plans to kill Arthur go, it was ridiculously over-elaborate. She had a spy in the castle who could easily have seen to it that he was poisoned or something like that.

If Arthur died, Agravaine was to be Regent and to take the crown himself if/when Uther died. However, even as Regent, it was unlikely to go down well if he turned the Crown over to Morgana, unless the plan was for him to "discover" that she'd been enchanted all along, was totally innocent of all wrong doing and, as Uther's only surviving child, the rightful heir to the throne... and even then it would be an incredibly long shot. Even if he tried to make a case that it was better for Camelot in the long run to accept Morgana as Queen than to have her as an enemy, it'd be a very hard sell.

As the plan was for Arthur to sacrifice himself to close the Veil, Morgana wouldn't have been able to use the Dorocha as a bargaining chip to secure the throne for herself.

That's true. She could have easily killed Arthur already, as she could have done with Uther before. The very complicated plans to get rid of someone when it actually would have been so easy have always buffled me. So maybe Morgana wanted to reduce Camelot's defenses and the knights too. By unleashing the Dorocha, no potential army of hers had to bother killing the knights and soldiers because the Dorocha would do it until she decides to close the veil one way or another. Killing Camelot's army would be the only plausible reason in my opinion.

Aside from that, it would have been a good idea to explain the dorocha and why they were angry spirits. A little more about the afterlife would have been interesting, thouh I think  that it's always risky to deal with such things on TV anyway.

When the Dorocha attacked the castle and even broke through the windows, why was nobody there to protect Uther in his chambers? While everyone seeked a hiding place place to be safe from the spirit's attack, Uther was alone and asleep in his bed in the darkness with no fire to protect him against the Dorocha. Wouldn't it be first priority to protect the king in such a situation? I think that this contributed to the overall indifference towards Uther. Gaius entered his chambers when looking for Gwen, yet he didn't do anything to make sure that Uther won't be killed by the spirits but left him alone.

I also would have liked to know what happened to Lancelot when he entered the Spirit World. Did he just die or was he trapped in the Spirit World among the angry voices of the Dorocha?