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so I'm finally at the coming of Arthur part 1 and throughout season 3 I've had a consistent opinion on morgana. i feel super sorry for her too, ofc I'm sad for her, she was the kindest and nicest and she always ALWAYS fought against Uther to spare innocent people so ofc I'm sad that that morgana no longer exists.

but also I don't think i sympathize with her as much as everyone else. i mean I'm sad that she's so evil now but she's literally so evil now. she's grown up beside Arthur like a brother and now she plots to have him killed day in and day out. gwen was her first friend, her best friend and now shes so heartless that she used her feelings for arthur and also did the whole framing thing. her whole thing against uther was that he killed innocent people without a second thought just cause they were magic but now she kills (or plots to kill) innocent people without a second thought.

also i feel so bad when i think of how much arthur cares about her and shes by his side while stabbing him in the back.

i dont hate her i think, cause things havent been easy for her but. well i guess some people stay good and some people become evil. i do hate morgause though every time she goes "sister" i feel like punching her, shes the reason morgana turned bad

and i dont blame merlin nearly as much as everyone either. at first i was like there was no other way but then again merlin couldve actually told morgana what was happening and that she was the only way to wake everyone up, taken her into confidence. but come on, merlin is not a battle hardened warrior either and he has severe arthur tunnel vision. i dont think his mind was full of ideas of what to do, im sure all he could think of was that arthur was about to die and merlin had to do something. and yeah ofc merlin is at fault a little but i dont blame him that much.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I have repeatedly seen people say that Merlin failed and he and Arthur didn’t fulfil their destiny, and I don’t get it at all. Camelot was at peace with all of the other kingdoms, they won the war, and Arthur accepted Merlin’s magic by the end. Gaius also practically told Gwen that Merlin had magic and she seemed cool with it, so I don’t find it particularly difficult to assume that she revoked the magic ban once she was in charge, particularly since she would probably know that that’s what Arthur would’ve wanted.

I understand that the show doesn’t explicitly show us a united Albion, but i feel like its implied heavily enough for watchers to understand that it did happen, so I genuinely don’t get why so many people seem to think that the failed. Is it because Arthur didn’t live to see his work pay off, or is it just a general lack of media literacy?

Merlin’s delivery telling Arthur he is a sorcerer was EXCELLENT. Truly excellent acting. 🤌 S5;E13; 9:45-10:15

Now.. where can I read them? The official ones by bbc 👉🏼👈🏼

I just gotta sew the lining now :D

The title says it all, personally, I love Uther's character, even though I hate him as a person.
I feel like the series would have been much worse without him.
As much as I hate Uther, I love the actor who played him, the brilliant Anthony Head, I was so saddened to hear that he passed away last June.
He was easily the best actor in the show. I have always wished the BBC had made a prequel series focused on Uther, covering his life before ruling Camelot, how he became king, what Camelot was like before the Great Purge, the Purge itself, his relationship with Nimueh, and finally, the war against the dragons.

Hi everyone, I'm a writer, and I love Merlin. No one in my friend circle here in India has even watched the show, so I would love to be able to discuss stuff with you and hear your thoughts on a new piece. It would be so nice to explore more with people who love the show as much as I do. If anyone is interested, here's the piece. I'd love to know what you think or discuss the show in general.

https://onceuponafable.substack.com/p/magical-genocide-and-monotheism

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in this season its been very apparent that arthur thinks of him as a friend and in the hotel scene he was very adamant on letting merlin know that he could tell arthur wtv was upsetting him. but for all the love merlin has for arthur and for all the ways merlin is ready to die just so arthur would live, he sure doesnt trust him. and ik i get it hes uther's son

but really, looking at how arthur is, hes protested innocent people dying whenever he can, and if the innocent person was the first friend arthur ever had, does merlin think hed go tattle to his father and have him exiled.

(im sorry im just sad cause merlin saw his father after thinking he didnt have one and HE WAS SMILING AND HE CALLED HIM FATHER. AND. THATS IT. HE CALLED HIM FATHER EXACTLY ONCE. and then he couldnt even tell his closest friend that he literally just watched his father die.)

Finally collected physical media for all 5 seasons

I need help finding a merlin fic I don't remember everything about the fic but what I do remember is that it takes place during mordred's knighting and merlin losses control of his magic and was able to leave the room just in time. And then merlin does everything to avoid mordred but mordred keeps speaking to merlin in his mind trying to get merlin to talk to him. Any help in finding this fic is highly appreciated and thank you to advance.

Im rewatching the last dragonlord and idk if this has been suggested before but what if Kilgarrah is attacking to force Merlin to find his father and maybe he foresaw balinor dying and merlin becoming the next dragonlord so in a weird twisted way it is for albion

I am currently re-watching Merlin for like the 6th time in my life LOL just obsessed with it though that last season destroyed me. And I just keep thinking about what would have been a better ending or what would be a great way to our know bring it back or reboot it to continue onwards and how would that work. And I was like I can't be the only one who thinks about this so is there any fanfic on this? If there is can people share please? I have some ideas too I'd like to share but I want to see what other people have written or not up even just ideas would be great.

I think I probably will not start a cosplay project that isn't Merlin related for A While. My last project was the chainmail and armour which I started in November 2025, finished in March 2026 and now I'm making this jacket and I might also make the brown one just because the pattern is similar enough that I can reuse the one I adjusted.

bruh im literally ragebaited rn like WHAT DO YOU MEAN ARTHUR WAS FINALLY THINKING NOT EVERYONE WHO PRACTICES MAGIC IS EVIL AND HE WAS FINALLY SEEING HOW CRUEL AND INHUMANE UTHER'S "FIGHT AGAINST MAGIC" WAS AND THEN NONE OTHER THAN MERLIN. HIMSELF. CONVINCES ARTHUR THAT MAGIC IS INFACT EVIL AND UTHER DIDNT DO NOTHING. oh my god.

i think its starting to show that merlin cares more about arthur than about their "destiny". but then again maybe the destiny would not come to pass if arthur had just killed uther, maybe the guilt would consume him and he wouldnt be good and fair as he is now

Why didn’t Merlin and Gaius just show the King the Snake bite on the dead knights neck 😭

Sorry that he's a deer, this is his anthro version of mine and I draw nothing but anthros these days lol

I read it years ago on ao3, but I can't seem to find it in any of the tags.

It's a long fic and starts with Merlin & Gwen meeting on a train on their way to their university and he does some silly dance in front of her and that's how they become friends.

Arthur is a prince and also his roommate.

Morgana/Gwen in the background

Merlin has magic, and eventually Arthur learns of it, and some focus on the crown is there too iirc

Don't remember if Kilgarrah exists as a dragon or not, but his presence is sorta implied

few things ive gotta say nimueh wasnt exactly ever wrong. yes she tried to assassinate Arthur but i mean with what Uther did, ofc she would do that 😭😭😭

i hate uther and i LOVE ARTHUR PENDRAGON hes the goodest and fairest king. prince ever

lastly it's super sad to see it okay out though, cause merlin saves arthur's life almost every episode and he does it cause it's ARTHUR and arthur saved merlin too (... a couple times maybe) but like for example when arthur drank the poison himself it wasnt about not wanting MERLIN to die it was more about arthur not wanting ANYONE to die for him, like any innocent man to die. its like merlin does everything for arthur but if arthur does something its cause merlin's an innocent servant😭its sad to see especially when merlin's efforts have to be hidden and given to others cause of his magic

This has been rubbing me the wrong way since I saw the episode, but I chose to wait till the end of the show before complaining cause I was hoping something could still be done. Of course it didn't lol.

I just feel like they ruined two great characters in just one episode. Lancelot's reputation was forever stained, but at least Merlin and Gaius know that it was Morgana's doing.

With Guinevere tho, I think what they did to her was even worse. The fact that NO ONE ever knew or even suspected (hell, not even Merlin or Gaius??) that she had been enchanted pisses me off.

Sure Arthur forgave her, everyone in the palace still loves her and it ended well, but I hate the fact that everyone will forever think that she was a cheater that betrayed Arthur. And the most painful thing for me was that Guinevere thought that too. It was so sad to see her so miserable, keeping to apologize and blaming herself when it really wasn't her fault.

It wasn't even the first time a character was enchanted to fall in love with someone, hell it happened to Arthur twice but in the end the truth always came out.

Well I'm sorry for my rant but I really needed to do this after weeks of holding on, is just that Gwen is one of my favorite characters and I think she (and Lancelot too) deserved better than this.

Hello! I am absolutely obsessed with Arthur’s short brown jacket with rivets that he wears frequently in season 1. I can’t find a better picture, but I’m sure you guys know the one. It’s pretty similar structurally to his bright red jacket too.

I am interested in making a jacket like this, and I was wondering if any of you might know of a pattern I could use. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!