User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-5102537-20120618121154

As usual, a very interesting blog post from you, Morganaforever. You always give so much input to discuss.

Since I have lost my faith in logical plots on this show, I think that if the reveal happens, there will happen either something incomprehensible, like Arthur freaking out despite his actual acceptance of magic or nothing spectacular will happen. I know, I'm pessimistic about it.

As for Gwen and Leon possibly reacting with anger or suspicion, I agree that Leon won't accept it just so since he indeed has seen a lot of evil coming from magic. It's what I wrote in my blog, most magical people/creatures have done a really good job on proving the anti-magic fraction right.

However, I'm convinced that Gwen will accept it instantly. She has lived under Uther's reign but she, as well as others, is a grown-up woman with her own mind. Wether Uther told the people of Camelot that magic is evil or not, people are not just puppets on a string but they can think for themselves. After all, Uther hadn't hypnotized the citizens. Gwen has never shown any emotion towards magic, neither fear nor acceptance, which is a shame. In regard to magic, she was zombie-like, no emotion at all and nobody knows what she thinks about it. But it wasn't magic that killed her father. It was Uther who had given the order to execute Tom, the one who fought magic. One would think that especially this happening would have made Gwen turning against the anti-magic law since it was the law that killed her father and not magic. Moreover, Merlin has always been a close friend to her and has proven himself to be trustworthy. Gwen knows best that it was almost impossible to act freely as a sorcerer under Uther's reign and she will realize that Merlin had already helped a lot with secretly using magic in the background. And if she had the heart to not hate Uther after everything he had done to her, she surely can forgive Merlin for not revealing himself to her or anyone else. She can't expect Merlin to jeopardize his own life in order to let everyone know who he is, and I think that Gwen's mind is working logically in regard to this, which would explain why she didn't hate Uther but simply didn't care about him. Supposingly, she was able to understand why he acted that way, yet not agreeing with him. It was enough to make her feel nothing for him but not enough to hate him and to kill him. That is why I think she will be even more understanding when it comes to Merlin whose life has always been in constant danger.

Seeing that Morgana's powers corrupted, Gwen surely could comprehend that Morgana was a good example for corrupting magic but she has no reason to think that even someone like Merlin would corrupt, too (although, some things point into that direction, actually...). In my opinion, she has the ability to differ between good and bad and to see it all from a distance, unlike Uther who suffered a shock. Gwen has always been much more stable than Uther, Arthur or Morgana - and she will see that Gaius, another trusted friend, supports and protects Merlin. So Gwen and Gwaine will have the least reason to cast a stone at Merlin.

If the writers do not overlook what happened during the seasons, it will be difficult with Arthur. Merlin will have to explain why he

1. released Kilgharrah who attacked camelot and killed hundreds of people

2. why he didn't stop Agravaine with his powers before Agravaine had the opportunity to help conquering Camelot

3. why he didn't tell Arthur about Morgana's powers and didn't stop her before she conquered Camelot

4. why he didn't tell him about the enchanted necklace and that it was Morgana and Agravaine who killed his father

5. why Merlin didn't heal Uther in time instead of wasting time by disguising as Dragoon and bantering around, which made Arthur telling Agravaine about his plans and which gave Morgana the opportunity to kill his father. I think that this is the most important thing that should be clarified since Merlin's egoistical attempt to bring back magic to Camelot and therefore taking advantage of the upcoming demise of Arthur's father, sealed Uther's death. If he had healed him secretly instead of telling Arthur to just accept it and then seeing a chance to fullfill his own wishes, Uther would still be alive.

But in the end, I suppose that all that will be ignored and Arthur will accept Merlin's powers. He has already accepted the druids, so why not Merlin? In season four, a lot of characters seemed to suffer from amnesia, so I assume they will forget about previous events in season five too. That makes the possible reveal very uninteresting for me.

As for Morgana, she will freak out, I think. Then she will accpet it and continue to try killing Merlin/Emrys. If she was still a sane person, she would see why Merlin poisened her and why he couldn't reveal himself to her later on. Though I agree that when Morgana learnt about her powers, Gaius and Merlin should have helped and guided her instead of abandoning her. On the other hand, if Merlin hadn't sent her to the druids, the druids would still be alive and Morgana wouldn't have witnessed the slaughter, of course.

I'm having a problem with the incomprehensible simple minds of some characters. They think like children, as if everything would be so easy and could be solved and dealt with in the most simple way. If Morgana had started to think, she would have realized that Merlin tried to save hundreds or thousands of people when posioning her, simply because she was about to kill them all and her death was the only solution to break the spell. It wasn't Merlin's fault but Morgause's and Morgana's. But no, she thinks that everyone is so bad and that she did nothing wrong. I wish the writers would give the characters the mind of adults and not the infantile logic of kids. Morgana used to be such a great and intelligent character, I will never understand why they changed her into a psychopath. But that's another subject.