Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131116154357/@comment-4909386-20131119092039

(i) I don't know if many people have the same kind of boots that Merlin has...

There was a brief moment when Dragoon stepped on his smashed pot, Arthur staring at it under those boots, and he never even wondered what became of Merlin if this old man is now waring his servant's boots!!!

(ii) And why didn't Gaius show Arthur the necklace, that someone had put it there deliberately for the magic to do the opposite?

Although this was going to be dangerous, as Arthur would have suspected Gwen, who has been at odds with Uther, evading execution twice, waiting and telling him that she cannot wait for Arthur to be king, and not suspect Agraveine, who is his "loving" and "caring" uncle.

(iii) Merlin kills Uther

Sometimes throughout the series, Uther has been at odds with us viewers, and Merlin finally gets him out of the way for his destiny to begin in earnest. Speaking from from my point of view, sometimes I had wished Uther would die, don't get me wrong, like in The Poisoned Chalice when he willingly chose to let Merlin die, and not giving Gaius the flower, in To Kill The King when he ordered Tom's execution. However there are those moments when you feel his good nature outsmarts the bad, so much that his relationship with Arthur is what makes him a good man at that.

Kind of like this episode. He died to save Arthur's life, showing despite his methods to bring peace to Camelot, he does love both Arthur and Morgana. That is what makes me feel sorry for him, and the way Arthur was torn apart, and Morgana herself felt something greater from what we viewers felt that Uther is finally gone, or that aspect that now she is indeed fatherless by her own doing!!!

Nevertheless it was a touching episode!!!