User blog comment:Waterwecna/Diamond of the Day Part Two: Review/@comment-5829707-20121225060926/@comment-84.159.150.220-20121227202316

According to the Legend the Once (Arthur of the ledgend) will rise again from his thomb as a King to rule it in the Future when Britain need him the most. (In the legend it can be also be read as the renew of moral and behaving of the Knights Code.) So the name really stand for itself and the writers shurely assumed that everyone knows the original ledgends so the name musn´t be explained.

Scenes so as Freyas Arm showing up and Gaius with Merlins favorite meal are just some key sentences to bind previous episodes and seasons together. (So to say mini conclusions and pretty little bows for the Merlin storyline)

I must agree that I (like everyone) was surprised about the last, Present scene but it fits to my explenaition above: It just will say that maybe as long as Merlin is around the time for the future king Arthur hasn`t come or is about to begin?

From the beginning of this season I expected an very open ending. Merlin as tv-show is over now but there is still much to tell about Merlin until the Present time.

So try the word MAYBE for the last episodes.

P.S. May I ask if you`ve read the original legends in the version of  Hisoria Regnum Britanniae and other sources?