User blog comment:Edrea/Is Morgana more powerful than Merlin?/@comment-10341849-20130628150948/@comment-5102537-20130629140114

That's what I understand when summing up what happened and what the Triple Goddess said through the Disir.

If the Triple Goddess wanted to support Merlin, thus supporting Arthur in uniting the lands of Albion with magic being allowed, she wouldn't have blackmailed Arthur which he could only reject and she would have stopped her own High Priestess Morgana in order to help Merlin.

The Disir/Triple Goddess didn't even talk to Merlin in "The Disir" or at any point of time (and vice versa, Merlin didn't feel the need to talk to his boss) and they did nothing to support Merlin but, on the contrary, gave him a real hard time. Had they not blackmailed and threatened Arthur, the whole situation could have been solved in the cave with the Disir. If they had talked to Arthur reasonably and shown him that he does not have to fear magic and doesn't have to obey and submit but would be able to keep his sovereignty and free will, magic would have been allowed again because Merlin would have adviced Arthur to do so and Arthur would have seen that a coexistance was possible. But by threatening Arthur that he will lose his loved ones and by making Merlin believe that Mordred will die if they do not submit, everything went out of control and Merlin wasn't the one who was supposed to work to the adavantage of the Old Religion and everyone else.

If I was the Triple Goddess and wanted someone, Merlin, to help me restoring magic in the land, I certainly wouldn't fight him but would work with him and support him. And I wouldn't allow my priestess to try to kill the ones who are supposed to bring back magic and to help me.

The whole thing was so very illogical that I can't even believe that the Triple Goddess had some sort of a brain. Unless the Triple Goddess feared the free will of the people and knew that Merlin wouldn't completely submit but always do what he thinks was right. With Morgana, such a thing, opressing and enslaving people, was possible and most likely. With Merlin and Arthur, people would be free.

In my opinion - and it's a shame that it wasn't worked out - there was the evil side of the Old Religion, the Triple Goddess (the very thing that Uther fought) and then there was something new and mercyful within the Religion, probably some kind of a New Religion which Merlin and maybe some other powers represented. Had they shown that there were two forces within the Religion itself fighting each other, everything would have made much more sense. The way they showed it, everyone has to wonder if it would have even been a good idea to allow magic again - and in the end, Uther was completely right.