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* More [[Fridge Logic]]: So, {{spoiler|Gallahad}} was the real [[Chosen One]], instead of {{spoiler|[[The Unchosen One|Lancelot]] }}. So, a {{spoiler|10-year-old boy}} was supposed to win the joust?
** I roll my eyes at this one, since it makes no sense that had Merlin known that {{spoiler|Galahad}} was [[The Chosen One]] that he'd put a kid in a jousting match. Also, it's that he would be the perfect knight when he was grown up, not as a kid. This isn't a case of [[Fridge Logic]] because it's not suggested that he has to win a jousting match anyway, just that he has to be a man of pure heart.
** Maybe Arthur was supposed to wait until Galahad was of age before leaving him in charge. Then Arthur would have had a few years to actually rule his kingdom, give his people some stability, and work on his marriage before disappearing off on a jolly of unspecified length.
** Alternatively, if Galahad had come to rule as a child, maybe his parents would have come with him. Lancelot would still have become the ''de facto'' steward, and with his wife and kid right there, would have kept his hands off Guinevere. [[WMG|Maybe]].
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Just look at the [http://l6.sphotos.l3.fbcdn.net/hphotos-l3-snc4/hs924.snc4/73703_160452923992985_100000848364812_285470_1298358_n.jpg costume]{{Dead link}} [[Martin Short]] wore as Frik, and consider that Morgan is played by [[Helena Bonham Carter]].
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Morgan le Fey grows up insecure about her lisp and drooping eyelid. She witnesses Uther rape her mother via [[Bed Trick]], then murder her father and his men, all because Merlin let him. Later, she's used as a pawn by Mab and Frik, and eventually her son completely stops caring about her {{spoiler|in preference for a surrogate, "Auntie" Mab, who kills her in the end.}} On the other hand, her reaction to the childhood trauma is bitterness and eager complicity in the plot to screw over Arthur, and she probably has a lot to do with Mordred's poor character.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mab keeps getting Frik to, well, frick with people's lives.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Vortigern casually referring to having killed men, women, and children simply for insolence, or deciding to {{spoiler|sacrifice Nimue to a dragon}} simply because it was most convenient.
** For Mordred, this moment is probably when Mab {{spoiler|kills Morgan le Fay}}, and he responds by ''laughing'' about it and complimenting her on it. “That was very clever.”
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** The Lady of the Lake's final conversation with Merlin, and the {{spoiler|lingering demise of both Queen Mab and Magic.}}
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