Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130406100756/@comment-8004601-20130409173020

Surely it's not right to say that saving Mordred caused Arthur's  death, because Mordred saves Arthur's life several times before then, firstly in Arthur's Bane by telling Ragnor to take Arthur & Merlin to Morgana when he was about to kill them. He saves Arthur a few more times after that, but if Merlin had let Mordred die then Arthur would have been killed by Ragnor even earlier then his eventual death. So saving Mordred actually prolonged Arthur's life, albeit not by very long...