I spent most of this ep kind of irritated by the fact that Edwin pibged me as female. I don't know excactly why, but I couldn't shake the impression, even when I knew for sure that he was male.
Other than that you're right, the ep should have been much more interesting.
I find Gaius an interesting character. I just don't recognize him in the fandom interpretation, where he's terribly nice and all.
There's Miss Manners assumption that if one is addressing a truly competent person, they are probably female. Edwin was truly competent.
Gaius can be nice, but he can also be terribly cold. I still can't get over the third episode where he's just standing around waiting for people to die so he can get on with the post mortems.
Episode 6 is when I really started getting into Merlin. I loved Edwin as a character but I was pretty annoyed at the ending. I don't think they should have killed him off so easily and it was understandable that he was annoyed at Gaius IMHO.
Hey, I've been reading your reviews and just wanted to let you know that I've really been enjoying them. It's great seeing the eps through new eyes. As for this one, I really hated it on the first watch. I enjoyed staring at Uther, and the Uther/Morgana was wonderful, but the stuff with Edwin and Gaius bugged me to no end for the exact same reason that you mentioned. Gaius sticks by Uther's side, he chose Uther over his friends, he's chosen Uther over Merlin before, he does whatever Uther personally wishes of him, he even leaves so that the truth never comes out about the purges, but why? Why does he care so intensely about Uther? Why is he so loyal to a man that he doesn't even agree with most of the time? A man who so readily stopped believing in his abilities? What the heck is Gaius's motivation? This is NEVER answered, and it's what bugs me most about the character. I cannot figure him out one bit. His inaction makes him appear terribly weak, and in the finale they kind of try to rectify this, but they still fail in
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I suppose we never really do know why Gaius sided with Uther... there are times you get the impression they once had a relationship like Merlin and Arthur currently have, and Gaius really does trust Uther despite his misgivings - but now I think it's more fear than anything. Yes, that made him a much weaker and darker character than he had seemed to me earlier, even though I still love him.
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Other than that you're right, the ep should have been much more interesting.
I find Gaius an interesting character. I just don't recognize him in the fandom interpretation, where he's terribly nice and all.
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Gaius can be nice, but he can also be terribly cold. I still can't get over the third episode where he's just standing around waiting for people to die so he can get on with the post mortems.
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Yes, that made him a much weaker and darker character than he had seemed to me earlier, even though I still love him.
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