User blog comment:Freyamerlin/I want a Season 6/@comment-5939645-20130116062101

The producers were determined to kill Arthur at Camlann no matter what. That rushed the whole story to Camlann only in the later part of the season when they realized that the actors weren't coming back for another season. Up until August, the producers thought that they were going to have another season. So, everything was so steered against logic, it's hard to take the story line as canon.

Certainly, Merlin should have tried to heal Arthur, but he didn't. Yes, Merlin should have summoned the Great Dragon two days before he did. Why didn't Merlin seek the Chalice of Life to save Arthur? Or why didn't he cross the Lake and see if  the Sidhe could help? Going back further, why didn't Merlin go back and meet with the Disir to try to undo the damage his advice did for Arthur? Merlin did that in previous seasons (Example - Season 1, "The Labyrinth of Gedref"). Instead, Merlin was a passenger on a doom ship not taking any action to stop Arthur's death. Why didn't Merlin intervene with Mordred? We all know Merlin of past seasons would have done that. There are many other missing linkage that never occurred. Scripts have always been a weakness in Merlin, but this season it was awful.

The fans are the true victims of the end of Merlin. We've been lied to by the BBC, Shine, producers and actors. We were led to believe that there would be a Season 6 when it was never possible. A popular program was ended on a very sour note with the death of one of the two main characters and the other wandering like a broken man through history. I wonder if  the producers, Capps and Murphy, ended Merlin this way to hurt chances of a spinoff. Until the time comes that the people involved tell us the truth, we will not know what really happened that brought the Merlin television program down. We deserve an explanation.