Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20140620091030/@comment-5674726-20140705131954

93.75.117.63 wrote:

1.  Kilgharrah is the Great Dragon. Being that knows the future, and has magic far beyound human(and Merlin's) knowledge and power. Who knows what he could do?

2. I pointed this out too. It's possible that Merlin understood the vision differently. That the massacre was caused by his unwillingness to free Kilgharrah.

3. Hoping that Kilgharrah will not attack Camelot doesn't look so stupid with everything mentioned above. But not freeing him will hardly help the situation. 1. Merlin knew one thing that Kilgharrah couldn't do, namely to free himself. He needed Merlin for that, which was why he was imprisoned for more than twenty years. The ball was in Merlin's court in that respect. While refusing to free Kilgharrah would mean that he would be cutting off a source of information, freeing him would have the same effect as Merlin had no possible way of knowing that he would be able to call on Kilgharrah and impose his will on him in the future.

2. Maybe he might have at first. However, the only way he could continue to believe that after Kilgharrah stated that there was only one course of action he could take and refused to promise not to attack Camelot would be if he was incredibly stupid.

3. I'm sure that the people who were killed when Kilgharrah attacked would have felt that it helped their situation if Merlin hadn't freed the creature who ended their lives.