Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130818111428/@comment-5102537-20130819114427

This was a nice filler episode for the younger audiences and the humour was good, except for a few things, like the flatulences and Arthur being a donkey.

I liked bald Uther and Goblin-Gaius enjoying slapping his head. Richard Wilson was awesome as Gaius being possessed by the Goblin.

I just think it was odd that Uther believed Gaius so readily when he blamed Merlin for everything, given that Gaius and Merlin were so close. Uther had been knowing Gaius for decades, so he should have known that this wasn't Gaius' style at all and that there was something wrong with him. Even Arthur knew that this wasn't the usual Gaius, and everyone else should have known too when the physician suddenly demanded gold for his weird cures. Not to mention when he told Morgana that he knew about her evilness. It was quite unbelievable that everybody accepted the allegations towards Merlin. In "The Crystal Cave", Uther tells Merlin that he knows that he is "Gaius' boy", noticing the fatherly love and the close bond. He surely hadn't realised this only in this one episode but had seen their relationship developing over the years, so him believing that Gaius would sell Merlin to Uther so readily, especially in this cold way wasn't believable at all.

Other than that, a nice comedy-episode.