Board Thread:Series 5 Discussion/@comment-71.195.18.110-20130130220009/@comment-6905051-20130326102448

This time around, Uther was dying and he   was surrounded by people, it was not left upto Gaius alone, that he can smuggle his sidekick in, and cure him magically. When a dying person is suddenly cured, sorcery is involved. Then Gaius would have been accused. Merlin clearly did not want it. There was Aggraivane around, already known as traitor to Merlin and Gaius, waiting to pounce on Gaius or anything magical just to find a scapegoat; taking the miracle magic cure chance is difficult. All the times you mentioned, Uther was seriously sick, but he was not stuck with a poisoned blade moments away from his death. And end of day, Merlin has no moral, ethical, logical responsibility whatsoever to cure Uther magically and thereby risk exposing himself or watch Gaius being accused once again. He cured Uther when risk of exposure or blame was less. And it was a favour, he does not have to do it over and over again.

Hey just coz Karma was not known does not mean it was not there. Half the stuff of nature that science can explain now, was not known, and does not mean they were not there. Poor analogy, but you get the drift.

Merlin helped Uther before; he did not do it this time. You make it sound it was so simple and easy to just walk in and cure a dying man with magic, and not raise any suspicion at all, especially only a handful of people were treating Uther. The only other explanation would have been divine intervention. The show does not even venture in that direction.

''Merlin used magic all the time, so respecting Uther's wish to not use magic in Camelot was not the case at all. ''

I agree, whatever Merlin did, respecting Uther’s decision of no magic was not one of it.

Calling Merlin selfish and callous would be a bit too much, since most of the time he does things not for his personal gain. You can call him getting slightly obsessed with greater good philosophy, but loads of great and good people make awful choices when enchanted by greater good thought. And yeah I think he grew up. It means he thought a way lot more, started weighing his options before taking a decision. It is good at times, it is bad at times. But you cannot call people selfish for that. Oh and I too think, as we grow up, we have darker thoughts, things become gray instead of being just black and white.

He always wanted Mordred to die except for first season. Ever since the dragon warned him, he did not want to interfere at all. He only came first time because Arthur risked his life to save Mordred and would have been caught and punished hard.

