Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24762954-20140512155917/@comment-5674726-20160108173322

Could we truthfully describe Merlin as working from the inside? That might have been the case had he kept doing things like trying to help Mordred but, in the later series, his focus was on Arthur and he was essentially waiting around for the day when Arthur would change his mind about magic and make everything right.

I'd say that his and Morgana's methods were both bad in different ways.