User blog comment:WoodlandGirl/Questions (SPOILERS)/@comment-5764349-20121226033602

1) I think is Freya's. It's true that it may seem as a man's hand, and that it would give a better hint of "Arthur isn't exactly dead", but the next scene after that is Merlin putting Arthur's body in the boat and send him into the water, so it doesn't make much sense for the arm to be his.

2) There are a lot of takes on the legend, but one of them is that in the final battle Morgana repents and takes 'almost dead Arthur' to a magical coffin in Avalon, where he would rest/heal until the world needs him once more.

3) No

4) Hope not

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First of all there are a LOT of plotholes in the series, and most of your question can be answered with "because it was needed by the writers for some future plot", but here we go:

1) It wasn't close enough to get it in time? They didn't wanted to sacrifice anyone? The dragon blade was so powerful that the cup wouldn't work?

2) Something to do with the "he is almost dead" thing which came out of nowhere some chapters ago. You would think that Arthur dying would be important enough to the dragon to sacrifice himself for, but no (actually I thought that this would happen when they called the dragon). Another question is why the dragon took them to the shore and not directly to the island :p

3) I'm almost 101% sure that they didn't intend for everything to end up like this, and for some unknown reasons they changed many things. There are a lot of Morgana scenes that seem to be only to clarify that she is too evil and that there is no going back, which doesn't make sense with a lot of things that they showed about her earlier (for example, in my oppinion she killing Gwaine was there to show that she was REALLY evil so then Merlin could kill her without any talk)

4) I don't think so (they would show something). "Hi Gwen, yeah, i couldn't save him, sorry ..."

5) Again, i don't think so. Arthur is dead, Gwen is okay but she really doesn't have a reason to reunite Albion, and why would she make magic legal if that just costed her Arthur life. It's true that she was happy when she guessed about Merlin, but 1 good vs 1000000 evil is not enough.

6) They needed Arthur dying slowly of something that Merlin couldn't cure easily with magic ...

7) I thought the same, plot hole.

8) Also thought about this, again plot hole, but we could say magic (of course this raises the cuestion why didn't Merlin use it for Arthur?)

I'm dissapointed in this finale, but honestly there were already so many plot holes that was impossible to fix them all in two chapters, so they just killed everyone.