How does merlin series end

But despite their numbers, Merlin comes in to save the day. As Merlin enters in his disguise, he basically becomes Thor and commands lighting and thunder to terrify the armies away as well as knock out Morgana. Now everyone is cheering and happy, but all is not well. Before anyone can declare a victory, Arthur meets Mordred on the battlefield.

After all, every turn that lead Mordred down the path of evil was created by Merlin himself. So when Mordred had his showdown with Arthur, it was rather… short lived? Never really developed, his greatest moment was his death. Instead peppered with heartfelt and heartbreaking moments are stagnant scenes. As much as I loved the scenes between Arthur and Merlin and the scenes between the knights, none of it was on an epic scale. The mending of their relationship was one of the most gratifying parts of the episode, Arthur realizing his mistakes and thanking Merlin.

Of course, I was in love with those scene as I tearfully watched it. He's had ample chance to do it many times throughout the course of this show's run - there have been times when revealing the truth would've saved his own life or the lives of others, and yet he picks this particular moment to tell Arthur all. Yes, they're in a tight spot and all seems lost, but isn't that always the case on this show?

You're left with the feeling that the reveal happens simply because this is the final episode. But again, all that having been said, the execution of the scene itself is faultless and having it come early in this episode at least allows time to explore Arthur's reaction in a little detail. We do also have to question though the likelihood of Gwen Angel Coulby guessing the truth about Merlin at the exact moment that the young warlock chose to confess the truth to her husband.

Again, why now? Gaius Richard Wilson may have dropped a heavy hint at the battlefront, but Gwen's been given plenty of clues about Merlin before. Her sudden revelation here feels too convenient. Speaking of Gaius, he's helping his ward care for Arthur - and who didn't love Arthur's frantic "He's a sorcerer! Feeling betrayed, the wounded Arthur spurns Merlin's help, but a fragment of Mordred's sword, forged in Aithusa's breath, is still lodged in his chest, and time is running out Arthur becomes increasingly embittered as his strength fades.

But the two men discover each other anew on their final quest to an ancient isle - their reminiscence about their first encounter was a nice moment, tying the entire series together. Two men sat in the woods, talking about their feelings, might not sound like the stuff that edge-of-your-seat drama is made of, but after five years of set-up and outright teasing, this is exactly the kind of pay-off that fans needed, and it works brilliantly. Credit though to the Merlin team for not neglecting the supporting cast either - practically everyone's favourite character gets their moment in the sun.

The ever-resilient Sir Leon Rupert Young steps up as Gwen's right hand, and Eoin Macken shines as the cocky Gwaine has his heart broken and leads his brother-in-arms Percival Tom Hopper on a foolhardy quest to confront Morgana, who's now a broken woman, shrieking and throttling her henchmen like a raven-haired Darth Vader. The sorceress captures the two knights, torturing Gwaine to death off-screen in what is undoubtedly one of the episode's darkest and most moving moments.

There was Sir Percival, whose biceps were so large that his chainmail armor was cut off at his shoulders. There was Morgana, whose tragic storyline we got to witness from the beginning. There was Arthur, struggling to balance what he thought he knew about the world and what he learns through the series. The ending is an emotional battering ram. Merlin is still there, his loyalty unchanged through the centuries, waiting for his king to rise again. Fast forward almost eight years since the finale, and the fandom is still going suspiciously strong.

The passion that the BBC adaptation has engendered is unmatched. Watching a sad, centuries-old Merlin cast a longing but resigned look at the place where his king died and then having the screen fade to black is hardly the ending the characters and the audience deserved. And they have risen to the challenge almost excessively — even today, fan fictions continue to be published and read on all major online platforms, some focusing on relationships between side characters, others corrective and restorative, and still others set in the present after the last shot of the last episode, telling the story of a newly-risen Arthur who is positively agog at modern-day Britain.

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