User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on Merlin's finale/@comment-5939645-20130106062153

The producers threw Arthur's death together in the last few episodes because the actors chose not to comeback for another season. So many things didn't make sense in the 5th series that I could write a book about it. This television series was a success because of the cast who managed to help us see past bad scripts and a poor story line. We all loved Merlin and Arthur because they were the heart of the show. Their chemistry made it all possible. Morgana had so much potential but the producers reduced her to raving lunatic. Somehow High Priestesses became invunerable to normal weapons .... I wonder how Uther killed so many of them? Merlin never made any attempt to help Aithusa....the dragon that he called into the world? You know that Merlin would have done that. The producers thought that both sides needed a dragon and so Merlin did nothing. Somehow Gaius knows that the blade in Arthur's abdomen is "forged by a dragon"; now how would he have know that? Why wouldn't Merlin have still tried to save him; he saved him from Morgana's poison only a few shows before. No, the producers decided Arthur had to die. The whole ending of the show was bogus. I can't even take it seriously. I would never watch another thing produced by Capps, Murphy and Jones.