Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-110.33.239.213-20121226023324/@comment-5102537-20130928100731

Druidgirl wrote:

The DRAGON said ARTHUR and MERLIN were to do this, not Guinevere, so how do we know if it happened at all! My bet is it didn't, which makes the whole series rather pointless.

To me, entire season five was pointless. Too many plotholes, inconsistencies and then the finale.

It was all too rushed and the prophecy didn't make sense anymore. Five years for us viewers and at least ten years for the Merlin characters were made being superflouse in just one episode when all of a sudden Gwen and Arthur (and the knights, supposingly) accepted magic and Merlin as a sorcerer due to just one single action; which was defeating the Saxons by throwing lightning at them.

Why hiding for so long when this one single thing would have done the job anyway?

Merlin didn't try to free his fellow magic-users and sorcerers anymore but only crawled at Arthur's feet, hiding from the truth (Arthur persecuting sorceres), ignored the chance to bring Arthur to the Isle of the Blessed in time when he didn't call the dragon sooner and Gwen was being left with countless angry sorcerers who have lost their last High Priestess (Morgana) and with countless citizens who most certainly still feared and hated magic, now even more so, plus with other kingdoms who most certainly didn't welcome magic just so after even the King of Camelot died at the hands of magic (the second one, not to mention).

If it was all meant to be because Arthur was destined to rise in the future (whatever future), I wonder what makes the people in the approx. 1000 years inbetween unimportant? Didn't they deserve the so-called Golden Age as well? And what exactly was the Golden Age supposed to be when there was peace for more than 25 years under Uther's reign? If it was all only about legalising magic again, why then killing Arthur and leaving Merlin wandering the streets for centuries, alone? And what in the world could be worse enough for Arthur to rise again when all the wars and catastrophies that happened in the past didn't make him return. Moreover, what could someone like Arthur ever do if even worse things than crusades, world wars and world hunger, poverty, pollution, slavery and civil wars will happen in the future?

By the way, since the finale referred to the modern world we have to assume that it referred to some kind of our reality. What a bout the crusades of King Richard the Lionheart that took place after Arthur's death? Shouldn't this event have resurrected him?