Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130622090602/@comment-5674726-20130627000229

''Either way, Arthur accepted Gaius' death sentence much too easily and quickly. Gaius was a trusted person, if not a friend after all. I think it was weird that he let down Gaius so easily whereas he had saved a stranger, Mordred, and acted right against Uther's orders by doing so.'' I think that it would have made for a better episode if Arthur hadn't accepted Gaius' death as readily as he did, and had taken an active role in trying to figure out what was going on and to help Gaius but I'd say that the writers wanted that moment where Guinevere is the one to get him to step in, the better to push the pairing, and didn't think about how it worked out in terms of Arthur's characterisation. One thing that could have been interesting is if Uther was the one to consider imprisonment, perhaps being talked out of it by Aredian, on the grounds that it would look like the laws against magic were weak, with people spared on the King's whim rather than magic being completely banned.