User blog comment:Dryuuu/Let's talk about Gaius/@comment-5102537-20120909074216

I have always disliked this weird killing off characters-thing on tv shows for the past years. The reason I watch a show/series is not always the the stories but most of all the characters. When I'm getting used to characters which happens naturally on a tv show, I see no reason why I would want them to be killed off. I guess every time period regarding TV has its quirks and traditions and we are obviously witnessing the time period of killing off characters and main protagonists on tv shows in order to let them appear to be mature.

I don't know why death stands for maturity on tv. Death is death, it's the end of any development and the end of growing up or in even worse cases it happens before a person can even grow up, but certainly not maturity.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if they killed off Gaius. Who knows, maybe the finaly is the big death-finally where almost everyone dies - Gaius, Arthur, Morgana, Mordred...

In my opinion, Gaius shouldn't die. Although I think that his character has become pretty callous and odd I don't see him standing in Merlin's way but still as a mentor. Granted, he meanwhile is a weird mentor considering his strange behaviour recently (for example, shouting at Merlin in "Aithusa" instead of telling him what he knows and why he thought that finding the egg was a bad idea. Or not asking Merlin to use magic secretly in order to save Uther instead of telling him he shouldn't save him at all. If Merlin had saved him secretly, Arthur's (new/old) hate for magic wouldn't have happened). I think season four had enough killing (Morgause, Lancelot three times, Uther, Agravaine, Isolde...) and I really can do without all this morbid style. If I want to see people dying I watch Spartacus or something (urgh...).

Let's wait and see what "even darker" is supposed to mean on season five.