User blog comment:Knightofthecart/Writers and producers, what did you want ?/@comment-5764349-20121230042705

I really think that they changed many, many things mid series which made them force certain scenarios, this is how i see some of them in my mind: (Warning: it contains some (very) spite from my side)

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Mid season 2

"Hey, i was just reading the original legend and turns out that Morgana is evil!"

"How evil?"

"Innocent-killing evil"

"That's tricky; I mean she has made some mistakes and she is confused because of her magic, but from that to kill innocents ..."

"I know!, let's make Morgouse kidnapped her for a year and then said that she turned evil in that time!"

"GREAT!"

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Mid season 3

"It's me again. I was just reading some more and turns out that Arthur is King!"

"And what about Uther?"

"I don't know!, what should we do?"

"Well, let's make him go crazy because of Morgana's betrayal and then make a clown kill him in season 4"

"GREAT!"

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Mid season 4

"You wont believe it! It seems that Guinevere betrays Arthur with Lancelot!"

"But we killed Lancelot!"

"I KNOW!"

"What can we do?"

"Well, maybe Morgana could rise him from the dead as some king of puppet."

"But wont that make his fans angry?"

"Maybe Merlin could bring him back just before he dies and it should be fine."

"GREAT!"

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Earlier season 5

"There is a problem, we have this big pile of plots already made, but we need a traitor within Camelot for them to work, and now everyone knows that Morgana is evil and Agravaine is dead, what can we do?"

"Well, maybe Morgana could enchant Gwen ..."

"Gwen?"

"Yeah, why not, and since we are at it let's kill Elyan"

"GREAT! But there is another problem, if there were some good years between season 4 and 5; what was Morgana doing?"

"Mmm, let's just put her in a hole for two years and everything will be fine."

"GREAT! But what happened to Merlin in those years?"

"Nothing."

"GREAT!"

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Mid season 5

"I just talk with the network, it seems that this is going to be the last season ..."

"Oh, come on, why couldn't they tell us sooner? We just wasted like four chapters in reruns of a traitor within the walls!"

"I know! What should we do?"

"Let's just say that this was planned all along enough times and everyone will believe it"

"GREAT! But what about the plot?"

"Well, we need Mordred bad so let's use a chapter in that. Kilgharrah can't help in the end so lets just make him tell Merlin that he's dying. Nevermind why Aithusa helped Morgana, that would take too much ..."

"GREAT!"

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Ending

"We have a problem, I have just ended reading the book and it seems that Morgana repents and takes Arthur to Avalon. Also Merlin seems to be immortal."

"Immortal?"

"Yep, that is what Emrys meant."

"Well, we turned Morgana too evil to bring her back now, so let's just make Merlin stab her. As for Merlin let's make Balinor appear and give a hint of Merlin's immortality. Then in the end we show that lot of years gone by and Merlin is still around."

"GREAT! But if Arthur is dead how can he reunite Albion, or make magic legal again?"

"Let's just make the dragon say that his destiny was fufilled, it the viewers believed him the first time they will again."

"GREAT!"