User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/The Best Under-Rated Characters of The Whole Series/@comment-5102537-20130113112711/@comment-5102537-20130115144759

What you wrote here: "Gaius never had gone to Kilgharra for help, for Uther the dragon had been important only until the end of the Great Purge."

That's the point. Gaius had a history with both Kilgharrah and Uther. Yet Gaius chose to ignore the fact that a magical being was being held prisoner by Uther, even though Gaius tried to help those with magic. Kilgharrah once blamed Gaius for turning a blind eye and this could have been dealt with within the show. Once the dragon was free, he wasn't a subject for Gaius anymore, and vice versa. A meeting between them would have been fascinating. Why didn't Gaius try to help Kilgharrah in any way, even if only by talking to him and easing his loneliness?

The history of Uther and Gaius was totally fascinating. Uther banished Nimueh and killed socrerers during the Great Purge but trusted Gaius and considered him as his friend. Why? What did Gaius do during the Great Purge other than what we know, which is trying to help at least a few people. Why did Kilgharrah accuse Gaius of turning a blind eye, which was obviously true, why did Gaius stay and left Alice and also thought of Uther as some kind of a friend at least in the first two seasons? And Uther and Kilgharrah never spoke of each other again once the dragon was free. Kilgharrah should have demonstrated at least any kind of emotion towards Uther. He didn't even say a word when Uther died, even though he must have been happy and relieved. The show dropped this all just so. And Uther never really wondered who released the dragon.

As for watching the show, I skipped half of season five because I couldn't take it anymore. I watched Merlin because I thought it was such a brilliant show in the first three seasons, then with season four and five it went totally downhill.

They could have sticked to Merlin being in the centre of the show without forgetting about everyone and everything else and without forgetting about logic, consistency and previous plotlines. Moreover, it wasn't about the young warlock anymore when season four started but only about the Arthurian legend. The change of plot and direction ruined everything. They should have either continued what they had started or they should have started with the mere Arthurian legend from the very beginning (I wouldn't have bothered to watch in that case, so a lot of disappointment would have been avoided for me). But doing it one way in the first three seasons and suddenly changing it all to a different story was just nonsense.

@Adelina, Merlin was totally indifferent and also pretty callous at times. They changed his personality deliberately in order to make the audience believe that he "grew up". If he had to choose between Gaius and Arthur, he surely would have sacrificed even Gaius. He became too obsessed and fanatical about Arthur, and he was even willing to let Mordred die and wanted others to kill him. He was a coward because at least two times he wanted others to do the dirty work for him. The first time was when he wanted to let Uther die in order to keep his hands clean. So the Gleeman actually did him a favour. By just watching Uther die he was as guilty as the Gleeman, yet he didn't kill Uther himself but let others do it for him. When he decided to heal him, he didn't do it for Uther or Arthur but simply because he saw a chance for himself to bring back magic. So taking advantage of the suffering and misery of others, a man who was slowly dying after suffering for so long and his son who was totally desperate, is indifferent, callous and selfish.

The second time was when he wanted Mordred to die. First he wanted Arthur to kill Mordred, then he wanted to watch him die of his wounds in order to protect Arthur, but again he didn't want to kill Mordred himself. And again, watching him die makes Merlin as guilty as if he had wounded him himself. This cold and cowardly behaviour was totally out of character for Merlin and I'm actually very much concerned that the producers as well as a huge part of the audience consider to let people die and to be callous towards others as being "grown up". It's as dangerous a message as the fact that girls see Morgana as a strong female, as you already wrote on your other blog.

I'm disappointed that they replaced Merlin's wisdom and compassion with indifference, cowardice and selfishness, and then called it "growing up" when it was actually the opposite.

Arthur was such an important person to him that he even ignored the fact that his beloved king slaughtered and persecuted Merlin's kind. That was so ridiculous, I'm astonished that the fans simply accepted this. Merlin is yet another example of a detroyed character by the show runners. Every single character was ruined, there is no exception.