User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/The Thrill is Gone/@comment-98.237.96.242-20130107182315/@comment-5102537-20130108105715

I suppose you are referreing to my response to you.

You wrote:

"Why didn't Merlin go back to the Disir and try to make things right? We know in our hearts that Merlin would have done that.....he did that with Nimueh in E13 of season 1. The producers didn't allow that to happen because it didn't fit into their story line. They made Merlin a passenger on a voyage of doom rather than a active agent."

and

"The problem is that we are speculating over a story line was made without any concern about the saga. We should all get together and write our ending just based on logical sequence...I bet we do a much better job. :)" 

I completely agree with you. "The Disir" could have been such a great epsiode if it hadn't been full of plotholes again and if Merlin had acted logically. I have been wondering all along why he didn't try to talk to his boss, the Triple Goddess. The one who presides and knows all is available to have a chat with, yet Merlin doesn't even think about this option and keeps relying on a prophecy and his own judgement, even though he is constantly seeing his own and other people's failures. He killed The Questing Beast and Nimueh, but he didn't even approach the Disir/the Triple Goddess just once. It made no sense at all.

Kilgharrah contradicted himself big time when he told Merlin that he fulfilled his destiny. Kilgharrah said on numerous occasions that Merlin has to kill Mordred, otherwise he won't fulfill his destiny and Camelot will fall. Which is exactly what happened, yet the dragon says that Merlin did fulfill his destiny. Makes a mockery of everything he said before. If Kilgharrah had known that it would end that way, he wouldn't have told Merlin to kill Mordred. The only reason why Merlin wanted Mordred out of the way was the vision he had and Kilgharrah's advice.

In regard to all the visions of Merlin and Morgana that came true, no matter what they tried, and also with  "The Crystal Cave" and on what the Villea said about Merlin's fate having been written since the dawn of time, he had no chance to alter the future and to fight fate. No-one had. The future was written in stone without the slightest chance to change it. The problem is that the future that was written in stone was a different one in the previous seasons and the show runners overlooked this when ending the show the way they did.

As for Gwen, I'm quite sure that Camelot couldn't withstand new and old threats for long. After numerous battles and wars with Cenred/Morgana/Morgause, and after Uther had lost almost half of his army on the search for Morgana, it was a miracle how Camelot was able to replace all the lost soldiers in such a short time to even outnumber Annis' army in season four. Now after Camlann, the army is reduced again, Arthur is dead, Gwen, a former serving girl (which other kingdoms know) sitting on the throne. There is no way that she is respected by everyone and every other kingdom, let alone magic-users/sorcerers. Arthur didn't unite the lands of Albion, so Camelot is (was) totally vulnerable and an easy target for others. There weren't even allies when the battle at Camlann started.

Everything they had ever done was completely invane. If it hadn't been for magic/Morgana, Uther would still rule and Arthur would still be alive, Camelot would be as strong as ever.