User blog comment:Fimber/Did Uther win at last? Résumé of Merlin and the finale - The Diamond of the Day Part 2/@comment-4650675-20121228213552

This is a great post, Fimber. I agree to mostly everything (I still disagree with the Morgana parts, but this was to be expected wasn't it?) and I have to add that the biggest disappointment was Aithusa.

This little Dragon had such a promising future! To be the light of the sun! The bright future of Albion! Then, for reasons unknown, she allied with Morgana (poor fans were speculating that this relationship was the beginning of her turning good) and it only served as a cliffhanger (we got you fans! you thought Aithusa was good because Kilgharrah said so? We got you!!!). In season 5, this creature and its owner had been through hell, and this strengthened their bond, as they continued helping each other, but we still got no reasons for Aithusa to join Morgana. Then, in the finale, Merlin just shoo's Aithusa..didn't it come to his mind that Aithusa may go and bring Morgana back to life again?

Apparently, the writers wanted to make the finale "tragic". In my opinion, it was only full of cruelty. Merlin executed Morgana without even flinching. Alas, he was more conflicted when he killed Agravaine. Morgana went nuts after Mordred's death(yes, even I admit it, but that didn't make her less good for me) and she tortured and killed Gwaine. The writers/producers made the death of two major characters(Morgana and Gwaine), two characters that the fanbase has known and loved for so many years, something very insignificant (even the troll's death was given more screentime than Morgana and Gwaine's combined). Cruelty, cruelty, cruelty, disappointment, death. Good guys, bad guys, indiscriminately everyone dies. Definitely NOT the appropriate message, and NOT something I would like my children to watch. I would make a fan video to them instead.

However, the message is (a bit) hopeful. Arthur will someday be brought back to life...hopefully. Morgana cannot die. Merlin cannot either. So what I think is, there could be produced a movie maybe, where Merlin goes to various times of the past (like Great Purge) and drastically change the future? I don't really know...

As for Uther...could we REALLY say he won? Yes, magic is banned, yes, Arthur joined him and his mother and will be a happy family(if his ghost does not eat Arthur's ghost from anger from their last encounter) but his kingdom, the thing that matters to him THE MOST, stayed with a servant on the throne, alone. I think he'd hate that!