User blog comment:GWAINE/Merlin - Episode 5.07 - Press Release/@comment-4892425-20121101234252

They're rehashing plot devices. This is 4x06 all over again, except they are making this an arc. No wonder Morgana's schemes tank - she doesn't learn from the first go round when her plots bomb she needs to come up with something different. Even 5x04 is a repeat of 4x04, (His Father's Son) when Morgana tries to get a royal (Annis/Odin) to do her dirty work by playing on personal grief, but in the end they abandon her and make an alliance with her enemy (Arthur). Morgana needs to stop cribbing from Wil E. Coyote's playbook.