Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20140217120328/@comment-5102537-20140227135612

Interesting, ReganX and Lurker.

The three years of peace in Camelot only happened due to the fact that Morgana was imprisoned by the Sarrum for two years and needed a little time to recover before she attacked again. I can't think of just anything that Merlin might have done during that time to change just the slightest bit. Except for commoners as knights and a serving girl as Queen, nothing had changed at all. The attacks on Camelot were always only Morgana's doing, also when Uther was still alive, and the peace they had for three years due to Morgana's absence couldn't be compared to the decades of peace under Uther's reign.

In regard to sorcery, nothing had changed in Camelot. There was no hint whatsoever about anything that Merlin had tried in this time gap, instead he hopped around happily until the events with Morgana took place once again.

Arthur's view on magic was as fickle as it had always been from season one onwards. Sometimes he thought magic wasn't so very evil, then he thought it was evil, then that it wasn't so evil, then that it was evil again and so on... The clearest sign of no change in regards to this was in "The Disir" when we learnt that Arthur not only forbid magic but even persecuted sorcerers.

So what, for goodness sake, had Merlin done to change Arthur's point of view? What was so great during the three years in Camelot? In the beginning of "Arthur's Bane" Merlin seemed to be totally satisfied and happy the way it was. Uther was dead, Morgana was gone, nobody there to be in the way, he was with Arthur and that's it. Here it even seemed as if he had grown jelous of anyone who could have received too much love and attention from Arthur.

Aside from the fact that now Arthur was King, nothing had changed for Merlin either. While Uther was alive, Merlin had to hide his powers. While Arthur was alive, Merlin had to hide his powers. No difference at all. The only thing that was different was that Arthur couldn't focus on Uther and Morgana anymore and maybe spent more time with Merlin (if so). Gwen was Metrlin's friend but didn't change anything either, neither in regards to magic nor to servants.