complete and utter lack of hesitation or remorse about killing people
Agreed. There were a fair few people in the comms I follow saying that was wrong for the character: IMO given what we know of the times it made sense.
wrt the history, it was a bit unclear but as Uther said in ep1 the ban on magic (and Arthur) was 20 years old at the beginning of the series. Presumably Gaius had been working for Uther for 5 years at the time of the ban.
eta: having seen all the eps I find I find it difficult to discuss things in any detail without getting caught up in spoilers. wrt Merlin as Deus Ex Machina, I can see why you call it that but IMO it also fits with a theme you identified in ep 4 and which is central to the show: Merlin has a natural magic the other sorcers we've seen don't and although he's a novice at spell casting Merlin has a lot more native power than anyone else has shown so far.
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Date: 2009-02-05 09:58 am (UTC)Agreed. There were a fair few people in the comms I follow saying that was wrong for the character: IMO given what we know of the times it made sense.
wrt the history, it was a bit unclear but as Uther said in ep1 the ban on magic (and Arthur) was 20 years old at the beginning of the series. Presumably Gaius had been working for Uther for 5 years at the time of the ban.
eta: having seen all the eps I find I find it difficult to discuss things in any detail without getting caught up in spoilers. wrt Merlin as Deus Ex Machina, I can see why you call it that but IMO it also fits with a theme you identified in ep 4 and which is central to the show: Merlin has a natural magic the other sorcers we've seen don't and although he's a novice at spell casting Merlin has a lot more native power than anyone else has shown so far.