User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Is Gaius anti-Freylin or just a tad selfish?/@comment-4640114-20121031022002/@comment-5659316-20121031035027

Thanks for the comment.

I, too, had always thought that Gaius was stupid in The Lady of the Lake (much as I like his character), BUT I thought, from his perspective, it was at least justifable stupidity, that he did what he did for Merlin and Camelot. Which was why I didn't like Love in Time of Dragons all that much when I first saw it (re-watching the episode made me like it a lot more, especially for the funny bits between Arthur and Merlin, and the part at the end where Merlin goes, "You could have gone with her," and Gaius says, unselfishly, for once, "I could have done"); Gaius just seemed so...well, hypocritial and almost Uther-like. My mind kept comparing it to The Lady of the Lake. What makes me dislike Gaius just a little and wonder if he's anti-Freylin or whatever, is how, even after he comes to terms with what's going on, he breaks Alice out of the cells, in spite of the danger he could have been in if he was caught, which is nice and all, but he had no problem whatsoever with ordering Merlin to leave poor Freya to rot in Halig's cage.

Also, a bit off topic, but if you're interested, I have a fanfiction about Merlin and Freya (and Arthur and Gwen, a little bit, too) called Merlin Und Freya (I modeled the title after the opera Tristan Und Isolde, though the stories, aside from a love-triangle, actually have very little in common, I just liked the way the title looked/sounded) up on fanfiction.net (the link to my FF profile is on my page on this site) and I would love to have your opinon on it if you have some extra time on your hands/want to read it or anything...