Christ I have had to split this in to two so I could fit everything in sorry.
As for point 5 I agree with your point that the show is trying to make it clear how good he has gotten at this. I think though that it is something that as come about largely due to some of the things that took place between him and Gaius in both the Troll eps and TSotF ep last week and also the wake up call he got from the Witchfinder ep.
Gaius may not have lied to Merlin about Arthur's origins but the withholding of that information and Uthers part in magic was an obvious betrayal.
Not only is Merlin lonely but he is, I think starting to be a little for want of a good word paranoid.
Where does Gaius stand. For a season and a half Gaius's constant mantra to Merlin is keep it secret keep it safe. Then suddenly he is telling Merlin to use his magic in front of the whole court to protect Uther when he gets enchanted by Catrina. He then doesn't justify himself in any satisfactory way to Merlin about Arthur's birth and when he does find out about Freya he goes and betrays her and by extension Merlin to Uther the moment he knows the truth. I think Merlin is feeling used and abused and just learning to finaly keep his mouth shut properly; and keep himself safe from everyone and that includes Gaius. I really see there relationship disintegrating by slow increments this season.
Morgana : I don't really have anything to add here as I pretty much agree with what you had to say here.
Arthur : Now Arthur on the other hand was really interesting too me this ep and the one thing I don't seem to have seen anyone else talking about is the looks exchanged between him and Gaius at both the attack scenes, when Uther went on his usual magic mucho bad rants. I thought that he seriously looked uncomfortable and I don't think that he really believes what he said to Merlin when he decided that all magic is evil. I'm wondering if he has had time to think things through and things just don't add up. He also looks quite sympathetic to Freya when they first trap her in the alley and its just when her transformation kicks in and their is real risk to peoples lives that warrior Arthur shows up.
Otherwise the whole trusting Merlin and breaking protocol thing I agree with HE truly believes and feels that Merlin is his friend. Whether Merlin realises it or not and I think he really is the only person Arthur cares about, of course apart from the true love with Gwen thing they are foisting on us.
Gauis : Man Gaius really pissed me off this ep. After everything that happened in the Witchfinder ep I cant believe that he would sell out Merlin so quickly. Why cant he just put some trust in him to get Freya out safely now that he knew what she was. As Merlin is Arthur's man Gaius is Uther's. I covered some of this in ref to Merlin point 6. I really think Gaius did a disservice to Merlin and he just keeps treating him like the boy who showed up that first day in Camelot. If he is not careful he will find that Merlin just wont trust him enough to tell him something when it will be needed.
Sorry about that, I kind of hijacked this so apologies again for the length of this :)
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As for point 5 I agree with your point that the show is trying to make it clear how good he has gotten at this. I think though that it is something that as come about largely due to some of the things that took place between him and Gaius in both the Troll eps and TSotF ep last week and also the wake up call he got from the Witchfinder ep.
Gaius may not have lied to Merlin about Arthur's origins but the withholding of that information and Uthers part in magic was an obvious betrayal.
Not only is Merlin lonely but he is, I think starting to be a little for want of a good word paranoid.
Where does Gaius stand. For a season and a half Gaius's constant mantra to Merlin is keep it secret keep it safe. Then suddenly he is telling Merlin to use his magic in front of the whole court to protect Uther when he gets enchanted by Catrina. He then doesn't justify himself in any satisfactory way to Merlin about Arthur's birth and when he does find out about Freya he goes and betrays her and by extension Merlin to Uther the moment he knows the truth.
I think Merlin is feeling used and abused and just learning to finaly keep his mouth shut properly; and keep himself safe from everyone and that includes Gaius. I really see there relationship disintegrating by slow increments this season.
Morgana : I don't really have anything to add here as I pretty much agree with what you had to say here.
Arthur : Now Arthur on the other hand was really interesting too me this ep and the one thing I don't seem to have seen anyone else talking about is the looks exchanged between him and Gaius at both the attack scenes, when Uther went on his usual magic mucho bad rants.
I thought that he seriously looked uncomfortable and I don't think that he really believes what he said to Merlin when he decided that all magic is evil. I'm wondering if he has had time to think things through and things just don't add up. He also looks quite sympathetic to Freya when they first trap her in the alley and its just when her transformation kicks in and their is real risk to peoples lives that warrior Arthur shows up.
Otherwise the whole trusting Merlin and breaking protocol thing I agree with HE truly believes and feels that Merlin is his friend. Whether Merlin realises it or not and I think he really is the only person Arthur cares about, of course apart from the true love with Gwen thing they are foisting on us.
Gauis : Man Gaius really pissed me off this ep. After everything that happened in the Witchfinder ep I cant believe that he would sell out Merlin so quickly. Why cant he just put some trust in him to get Freya out safely now that he knew what she was.
As Merlin is Arthur's man Gaius is Uther's. I covered some of this in ref to Merlin point 6. I really think Gaius did a disservice to Merlin and he just keeps treating him like the boy who showed up that first day in Camelot. If he is not careful he will find that Merlin just wont trust him enough to tell him something when it will be needed.
Sorry about that, I kind of hijacked this so apologies again for the length of this :)