Talk:The Mark of Nimueh/@comment-5674726-20130219001202/@comment-5102537-20130220115226

Actually I believe that both happenings were only plotholes. If I still had trust in the showrunners/writers/responsible people for the plots, I would think that there was more behind it. Alas, it rather seems that the fans are trying to fill in the plotholes but will never get an answer, simply because a lot of things occured due to such holes.

Im not sure that Kilgharrah really manipulated Merlin for the worse. If he had done so, it would have been hinted in the finale at the very least. Instead the dragon told Merlin that he fulfilled his destiny (ridiculous) and Merlin was fine with it and believed him. There was no hint that Kilgharrah played his own game that brought on the downfall.

Yes, in regard to Uther believing that Gwen healed her father, it was quite weird that he didnt want to know who healed him in the end. Again, I think it was a plothole. Reminds me of the situation with Merlin as Dragoon who claims to have put a spell on Gwen and Arthur even though Gwen and Arthur knew very well that they weren't enchanted. Another similar situation was in season five when the stable guy was killed by Gwen. It was never clarified to Arthur in the end who exactly killed the poor guy because it couldn't have been Morgana. The very fact that Morgana was behind it all didn't explain the murder of the stable guy at all but for some reason everyone was fine with it, ignoring that it only could have been someone in Camelot who has access to the dungeons.

But... IF the situation in "The Mark of Nimueh" wasn't a plothole, maybe Uther thought that Nimueh healed Tom in order to have him suspect Gwen so that Nimueh can go on with her evil plans while Gwen and probably others will be executed. As a distraction, so to speak.