Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-110.33.239.213-20121226023324/@comment-23836938-20130929105045

Not only in season 1 - it was often mentioned in more subtle ways. Merlin saying 'I will gladly die, knowing oneday Albuim will live.' and Kilgarrah making it very clear Merlin could not escape or change his destiny. The Fisher King, Finna, Alanor and Frey (lady of the lake) all gave him tools to prevent the NEW prophesy.

Throughout the ENTIRE show Merlin states 'One day it will be different', 'One day we will be free' 'Arthur will bring about a new time'. So many times I dare not count. But it didn't happen, Arthur died before he could make it happen. Merlin never returned to camelot - or atleast we were never shown this. But worst of all - we never saw the ban on magic lifted. EVEN if the makers of Merlin had for some stupid reason had to kill Arthur they didnt need to kill the whole point of the show - Whether Arthur was dead or not, Albuim should have lived, magic freed one way or another

Merlin acheived nothing