User blog comment:Fimber/When family is what destroys you/@comment-5465618-20121120233618/@comment-5102537-20121122113453

I agree with you when it comes to the first two seasons and part of the third one, Sweetnatured. What you wrote was the reason why I became a fan of the show. However, think that they replaced this more colourful version with all its grey zones into a shallow black & white show that doesn't question the events and characters anymore.

When Gaius asked Merlin what happened to the young man coming into my chambers... in "The Disir" (the only epsiode I watched after "The Death Song..."), Merlin answered "he grew up". Well, Gaius asked this question because Merlin was willing to let Mordred die. His justification was that he grew up. What does that tell the viewers? It says that growing up means to get cruel and to let others suffer and die. This could have been put into perspective by Gaius if he had responded something and told Merlin that growing up doesn't mean to let people die.

What Merlin did here, even though his plan was illogical and failed in the end anyway, was demonstrating that the best way of getting rid of a threat or of what stands in your way is to kill. Plain and simple. Is this growing up and and this the message that children and teens should see?