This episode also did nothing to further the overall plot, but oddly enough, I didn’t have a problem with it. I wish I could explain why this is, but I don’t have a reason. I’m simply okay with it this time around. In this episode, Arthur kills a unicorn while on a hunting trip and Camelot is now suffering from a curse – the crops are dying, there’s no water, people will soon die too. My first thought: Was it Starbeam?! To lift the curse, Arthur must pass a series of tests from the keeper of the unicorns. He passes the first one, where he lets a thief go instead of turning him over to Uther to be executed. Then fails the second one where the same thief insults his pride and honor, they get in a sword fight, and Arthur kills him. Cept the thief turned out to be fake and just all part of Arthur’s tests. The final test is ultimately that Arthur has to prove he is pure of heart, like a unicorn is. He drinks poison to save Merlin’s life, and is presumably dead. But it turns out it’s just a sleeping drought and he’s not really dead, the mere act of his sacrifice is enough to lift the curse
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