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It's still sad how Gwaine's life ended though. In his first appearance, he tells Merlin that he can't be a knight because he has yet to find a royal who's worth dying for. When they say their first goodbye, he says that Merlin should take care of Arthur because he actually might be worth dying for. On their way back from Arthur's quest, Merlin tells him that he can't live like that and he agrees, but it seems like he doesn't know how to find a purpose. A few episodes later, he finally becomes Arthur's knight.

A fitting end, if the writers really needed to go all tragic, kill the only knight that Merlin was friends with and all that, was to show him really dying for Arthur. Instead, he died acting on his own, not on Arthur's orders, and sealed the king's death.

Then again, since so many things in the final episode, and in season 5 in general, don't make much sense, I don't think the writers remembered what they did in season 3...