My gut instinct is that he didn't go back for a while. After that he may have gone back occasionally to see Gaius before he died but it would be too painful to stay.
I think Percival may have found Merlin and been told to tell Gwen that Arthur was dead and Merlin wasn't coming back yet.
is it touched all the bits of my soul that have loved bromance-type stories most of my life.
Yes, mine too. I think I imprinted on Rosemary Sutcliff at an early age and she did that sort of thing so well. The finale just hit me in all the right places and with a depth of emotion that you don't often see between men on tv. It was very brave and beautiful.
I figured either Merlin never went back or he went back to say goodbye to Gaius and then left.
The Percy thing was odd. Felt like it had been filmed and then dropped for time. Likely he was told that Arthur was dead and brought the news back to Camelot.
Oh, those two. The love just shone around them. It really was a brilliant love story as Alex Vlahos said. Brilliant and doomed.
I'm pretty sure Percival went and found Merlin, and then went back to Camelot with the news. You think being the finale they could have put the missing bits in and gone for 50 minutes. I think Merlin must have returned to Camelot at some point, but never stayed there.
I thought the finale was pretty good, although I do wish the big reveal had happened earlier in the series and they'd played out the implications before Arthur was dying.
Like you, I hoped Arthur would make it, even though the legend told me that he wouldn't. I also wondered why they didn't ask the dragon to carry them straight to Avalon, rather than dump them beside the lake (although I know why, of course), and finally, I really felt that they should have taken Arthur's chain mail off at some point so poor Merlin wasn't lugging him around weighed down with it. :-P
I'm still not sure about the final scene. I always felt that the Albion of this series was a very mythic land that wasn't early Britain, and having Merlin wandering about in Glastonbury just seemed a bit odd. What's he been doing all this time? Did he go back and help Gwen? Etc etc.
But I'm sad that the show is over, and that it never really achieved its potential. But that's the same with so many shows these days. :-(
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My gut instinct is that he didn't go back for a while. After that he may have gone back occasionally to see Gaius before he died but it would be too painful to stay.
I think Percival may have found Merlin and been told to tell Gwen that Arthur was dead and Merlin wasn't coming back yet.
is it touched all the bits of my soul that have loved bromance-type stories most of my life.
Yes, mine too. I think I imprinted on Rosemary Sutcliff at an early age and she did that sort of thing so well. The finale just hit me in all the right places and with a depth of emotion that you don't often see between men on tv. It was very brave and beautiful.
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The Percy thing was odd. Felt like it had been filmed and then dropped for time. Likely he was told that Arthur was dead and brought the news back to Camelot.
Oh, those two. The love just shone around them. It really was a brilliant love story as Alex Vlahos said. Brilliant and doomed.
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I think Merlin must have returned to Camelot at some point, but never stayed there.
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Like you, I hoped Arthur would make it, even though the legend told me that he wouldn't. I also wondered why they didn't ask the dragon to carry them straight to Avalon, rather than dump them beside the lake (although I know why, of course), and finally, I really felt that they should have taken Arthur's chain mail off at some point so poor Merlin wasn't lugging him around weighed down with it. :-P
I'm still not sure about the final scene. I always felt that the Albion of this series was a very mythic land that wasn't early Britain, and having Merlin wandering about in Glastonbury just seemed a bit odd. What's he been doing all this time? Did he go back and help Gwen? Etc etc.
But I'm sad that the show is over, and that it never really achieved its potential. But that's the same with so many shows these days. :-(
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http://www.hypable.com/2012/12/26/a-merlin-retrospective-the-platonic-love-story-of-merlin-and-arthur/
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