Talk:The Disir (episode)/@comment-5653093-20121104153844

This was cleverly done -the outcome of this episode was going to hurt Merlin either ways.

If Arthur accepted magic - Mordred would have died, leading to Arthur hating magic again or Mordred would have survived and would have killed Arthur in the future anyway.

If Arthur didn't - the future that Lochru showed him would have happened anyway - but remember, we do not know Mordred's motives yet so anything could happen.

Arthur has only ever seen magic as evil - he would have trouble seeing it used for good. That is what I meant about my earlier comment.

The Euchdag said that Arthur's bane is himself, we clearly saw that in this episode - Arthur discrediting Gaius' warnings at first, shrugging off Merlin's warnings about the cave being a sacred place...it was only when Mordred was wounded that he clearly saw the error of his ways.