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I don’t want new children (reincarnations of aziracrow)

Arthur was always going to die — if it’s based on Le Morte De Arthur — I suppose. There were a million ways they may have improved the closure of the ending (I once saw a post saying that if they’d put just a two second clip of Merlin recognising Arthur in the lake in the modern day we would’ve had a lot more closure and now I can’t stop thinking about it) but they did decently, in my opinion.

This is *the* Arthur Pendragon — *the* King Arthur. And, forgive me for I have not read Le Morte De Arthur and don’t know how it’s portrayed there, his death is overall really… intimate? You’d expect the death of such an important mythological figure to be a great and honourable death in battle, surrounded by his people or his knights or even his wife. But the writers decided they were going to make his death just about Merlin and him. They decided they were going to make the majority of the FINAL episode of their show just about Merlin and Arthur and them talking it out; with the heroic and noble Arthur unable to support himself without Merlin.

This might just be an outcome of my tears over the end of Good Omens season two, but I’m SO grateful that they had Arthur forgive Merlin before he died. Sure, they could’ve revealed his magic earlier and it would’ve felt smoother — and there was a lot they could’ve done to improve Arthur’s character development in general — but I’m just glad he did forgive him.