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I've thought about this before!! I would really love to see the whole series from Arthur's POV, and I don't mean just showing different scenes either. I'm talking different camera angles, color grading, background music, and a whole different tone to the show!
I say this because it seems like, at times, Merlin and Arthur are going about their lives in two completely different genres of stories.
Because, while we see all the trauma and pain Merlin goes through throughout the entire series and we get to see the series as a whole become darker with Merlin's darkening worldview, Arthur has the opposite experience. As the series goes on, he becomes more lighthearted, growing as a person. It seems like, at some points, that Arthur is going through his life like he's in a fairytale or a rom-com, while Merlin is going through... all of that.
So, in this Arthur's POV, everything, especially in the later seasons, would be lighter, more colorful, more alive than what we see from season 4 onwards. Arthur's POV would look more like a conventional fairytale, because that's what his experience, up until the finale, has been.
You know it would be so funny
If BBC released two versions of Merlin side by side
Like some people would get what is already the show
Other people get the show from arthurs perspective showing scenes where merlin isn't there and arthur is doing stuff etc
And the people who get the arthur version don't get to find out merlin had magic till the last episode.
Imagine the fan theories of those watching the arthur version, especially at seeing old merlin and the dolma.
Imagine all the fans by at least the last season kinda expecting merlin to have magic at that point.
Imagine them seeing the last episode and breaking down cuz how dare it end like that
Then imagine them finding out about the OG merlin show and watching the scenes from his perspective and getting even more devastated at seeing just how much merlin did for arthur.
This would have been truly evil of BBC to do and I respect them less for not doing it