Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140329115401/@comment-5102537-20140408125732

Issy5209 wrote:

I was just thinking we all know what Merlin was striving to achieve, but what was Arthur trying to achieve? Was he just trying to rule Camelot in his father's legacy, was he trying to change things for the better of the people, was it a safer place to be and travel (there were still bandits about).

That's the big question. And that's what has always annoyed me about Arthur. He never seemed to have a direction but jumped from one opinion to another or didn't have any opinion at all. He wanted to rule Camelot in Uther's legacy and dis so indeed, but then cast a stone at his father when talking to him in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon", telling him that he doesn't want to rule the way that he did and that Uther's hatred came only from fear, yet he didn't change it even after this conversation and continued outlawing magic. Did Arthur even have any point at all? One episode he praises his dead father and doesn't know how to live up to his standards, and the next episode he tells Merlin that he was a better ruler than his father until he negates his own remark again in one of the next episodes.

I wonder why Arthur even considered in "The Disir" to obey the Triple Goddess. The moment that she threatened his kingdom and his loved ones and blackmailed him he should have made clear that submitting to her would be completely out of question.

Ozymandias v wrote:

"I hoped we might see some of this when Merlin had to appeal to the White Goddess to help Gwen in 5x09. Instead I'm left unsure whether the White Goddess is even different from the Triple Goddess (although I'm presuming that she is—given the Triple Goddess's opinion of Arthur I doubt she would have aided him under another name). "

I've never watched this episode, but it's interesting that the chance to demonstrate the differences within the Old Religion was wasted again. Shame.