Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-26070146-20130824152043/@comment-5674726-20130828124057

I wonder how the other dragons compared to the "Great" Dragon. The only other example of a dragon we have is Aithusa, who was very young and crippled. If the others were much smaller and weaker, maybe Camelot's army was able to take them out.

As for Kilgharrah, I wonder what Balinor ordered him to do. If, for example, he believed that Uther was serious about peace and wanted to make sure that Kilgharrah didn't destroy any hope for a peaceful resolution, he might have commanded him not to harm Uther or his people. In theory, that would mean that, if Balinor was unable to rescind his order, ie. if he was knocked out, Kilgharrah would be unable to defend himself when Uther and his men attacked him but it wouldn't explain why he didn't fly away. I can't see Balinor ordering Kilgharrah to allow himself to be imprisoned, even if his own life was threatened.

Short of there being a second Dragonlord who ordered Kilgharrah into imprisonment once Balinor had him in Camelot, I can't see how Uther managed to get a huge dragon to go down to the cavern and be chained up, especially as the chains themselves would have to have been magical and magic used to bind Kilgharrah with them.

To be honest, I'd say that little, if any thought was given to how Uther imprisoned Kilgharrah, and one of the writers pulled the Dragonlord thing out of their backside so that they could (a) have Kilgharrah go on a rampage but stopped within an episode, and (b) give Merlin an extra power.