Merlin co-creator addresses divisive ending – and possibility of a reboot ...Middle East

Two-part finale The Diamond of the Day – co-written by Michie and Julian Jones – was originally broadcast on the 22nd and 24th December 2012.

The series closed with Merlin (Colin Morgan) now inhabiting the present day, awaiting the time when Arthur would rise again.

"So a certain kind of ending would have been Arthur doesn't die... the proscription of magic has ended, Merlin’s secret is out in the open and that’s all fine and Merlin and Arthur carry on bickering away in a sort of glowing Camelot where all the foes have been vanquished and all the goals have been achieved and destinies have been negotiated and outsmarted."

"How far can you stray from those moments, and in a sense, how do you want to leave it?" he posed.

Quizzed on whether there was ever any potential for the series to run longer, Michie replied: "I think if Merlin were to continue, it would have had to reboot itself.

He added: "There were conversations down the line, should we do that? Should we have Merlin in another time and place?"

"The trouble with that is we and the audience have become pretty wedded to Colin and Bradley," Michie said. "If Colin popped up as Merlin in another timeline surrounded by new characters, you could do it but I think the success of the show was those characters and those actors in the time and place that they were in."

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