As I see it, there's more to protecting Arthur than what Merlin did here. But I say more about that in my reply to your comment on my post. (And yes, I damn well would have done something different. When you've been dealing with this kind of thing for ten years in-universe, you lose the genre-savviness excuse.)
(And Merlin SHOULD be prodding Arthur to accept magic. It's part of his destiny, and his duty.)
As I saw it, Merlin was in a complete catch-22 situation, make that catch-222. I felt sorry for him more than anything else. I'm new enough to the show (and missing enough back-story) to not get everything but I think if anyone is to blame it's the dragon, not Merlin. I'm starting to wonder exactly who the dragon is and what his purpose is. I thought he was a good wise guy. Annoying in that he talks in riddles, but I could handle that since he's a dragon and that's kind of what they do. And he couldn't really go around telling everyone the future or exactly what they should do all the time, anyway. That would be dangerous and make for a boring story line. But now I don't know what his role is. Firstly, if a moral line was crossed, it was by him: you don't tell someone "You better kill Mordred next chance you get or else..." and get to keep the moral high ground. It was only Merlin's sense of loyalty to obeying the wisdom of the dragon that got him into this mess; he would never have dreamt of it on his own. Secondly, moral or not, it
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As I see it, there's more to protecting Arthur than what Merlin did here. But I say more about that in my reply to your comment on my post. (And yes, I damn well would have done something different. When you've been dealing with this kind of thing for ten years in-universe, you lose the genre-savviness excuse.)
(And Merlin SHOULD be prodding Arthur to accept magic. It's part of his destiny, and his duty.)
I'm with you on the Disir being awesome, though.
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