Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140517082836/@comment-24629321-20140611015840

I think the episode strongly implies that Gwen will legalize magic, especially when she's pleased that Merlin turned out to be the sorcerer who saved the day. As for her attitude on magic, it wasn't really shown much in the show one way or the other unfortunately. I do remember one scene, perhaps it was one of the deleted scenes—I think it might have been from The Wicked Day—in which Arthur tells Gwen he's thinking about using magic and her response seems to indicate that she blames sorcery for her father's death and thus doesn't have a very high opinion of magic. I'd have to see that scene again to be sure, but either way, I doubt the writers took that scene into account by the time of the finale, which to me pretty strongly indicates that the Golden Age of magic being welcomed back to Camelot is going to happen under Gwen's rule.