Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-110.33.239.213-20121226023324/@comment-5102537-20130929171724

ReganX wrote: I don't doubt that they meant for Guinevere's coronation to be a happy ending for Camelot, they just did too good a job of showing why this would not be a realistic outcome. In any case, even if things become happy for Albion in the future, it's not an Albion that Arthur and Merlin built.

There are times that I think that the writers did not intend to kill Uther off so quickly, and that the show was to end with Arthur becoming King and the beginning of the golden age.

Absolutely. Not only Kilgharrah's comment in season one proved that (when he said that Merlin has to protect Arthur until he's king because once Arthur is king, Albion will be united and magic will be free) but also what was said during the first three seasons, for example that once Arthur is king, the show will be over.

Whatever caused them to change this - whether new ideas or time schedules of the actors, Anthony Stewart Head in particular - it all would have made more sense if Uther had stayed until the end. And a lot of disappointment on all sides could have been avoided.