Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5102537-20140620091030/@comment-93.75.117.63-20140705095251

ReganX wrote: 1)Kilgharrah was able to blackmail Merlin into making a vow to free him. He did not have the power to force Merlin to keep his vow and Merlin knew this. 2)I should also point out that, while Merlin committed to freeing Kilgharrah, he made no promises about when he would do this. It was therefore open to him to wait until Uther died, or until Kilgharrah vowed not to attack Camelot, before releasing him.

3)As for Merlin thinking that Kilgharrah wouldn't attack Camelot if he freed him, I'm afraid that the only way I could see that happening is if he was so stupid that everybody who ever called him an idiot was overestimating his intelligence. Not only had he seen a vision of Kilgharrah attacking Camelot, when he asked him to promise not to harm Camelot, he refused to do so. Merlin still chose to free him, even when he knew that it would mean the deaths of hundreds of innocent people. He has Guinevere to thank for the fact that Arthur wasn't among the casualties. 1.  Kilgharrah is the Great Dragon. Being that knows the future, and has magic far beyound human(and Merlin's) knowledge and power. Who knows what he could do? And you grossly underestimate even his abilities to manipulate people. After all he only blackmailed Merlin twice, surely it was accident. It's not like anybody ever needed that dragon's help

2. I pointed this out too. It's possible that Merlin understood the vision differently. That the massacre was caused by his unwillingness to free Kilgharrah. Because of Hunith, Merlin wasn't really going to free that dragon(in S2E1 he was even opposed to asking for help). And in his mind it caused Kilgharrah going evil. What other reason he had to attack Camelot? After all, it was the Great Dragon who told Merlin of his destiny and many times helped him to protect Arthur. And Merlin classed dragon as good - he actually used it as an argument in S2E1(when asking Kilgharrah for help against Sigan).

3. Hoping that Kilgharrah will not attack Camelot doesn't look so stupid with everything mentioned above. But not freeing him will hardly help the situation.