GEOFF, JEALOUS? U NO IT. Uther has got it goin' on. And Gaius would be totally denying their ~*special relationship even though everyone else knew what was what. Mmm, I like the idea of Geoffrey as his counterpart. Maybe he will get a few more lines in season 2! lol. You know they've gotten more tired as they've gotten older; they're not exactly shadows of their former selves but they just don't have the same vigor.
He wonders if Merlin will make the same choices he has made. He hopes Merlin won't, for everyone's sake. This is probably my favorite thing about Gaius - they don't give us a lot of glimpse to his motives as anything more than fatherly or wise-advisorly, until Edwin the bug-sorcerer comes along and reveals some of Gaius's hidden past, and when Gaius goes to visit the dragon, and then we see that Gaius is in this way deeper than Merlin. oh mannnn I love it.
I think the Merlin/Arthur ship will start embracing romantic claustrophobia as soon as the characters start actually having some sort of tension between them in the show... as it is they are still risking their lives for each other in more and more dramatic, emotional ways. Like, Ep 10's scene of Arthur warning Merlin about the badness of Will sorcery - that brought a bitter note into fandom for sure, reminded people that things could go horribly, horribly wrong for Merlin because of Arthur.
There might be actual beat name-dropping! And oh man way more politics. In fact I sort of want to make it more extreme than the 50s were. Something more like pre-WWI Wobblies labor-agitation stuff (hee, WWI IWW) but with the corresponding countercultural movement of the 50s. And plenty CIA sabotaging communist regimes.
Gaius is, I think, a dude who was doing his undergrad in something humanities or social sciency and was all revolutionary, and then when the war came as soon as the government started cracking down on subversives, he quick left that social scene and went to med school, started working for the government in the military hospitals. He was abroad as a military doctor for a while so maybe he saw some of these CIA crackdowns. Maybe now he is at a med school high up, or in military hospital administration, or maybe he teaches at university. I think he must've known Uther in the military. He has all those social theory and history of magic books that he gives to Merlin. While Merlin's not rooming with Arthur he's living with Gaius, old family friend, while his mother lives far away taking care of his grandparents. Eventually Merlin and Arthur move in together, but Arthur's gone a lot so Merlin still goes to see Gaius plenty. And Gaius tells him stuff about military history and politics and the Pendragons and helps him with his classes, and he's not exactly Merlin's introduction to the revolution but he provides some connections and the voice of reason.
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He wonders if Merlin will make the same choices he has made. He hopes Merlin won't, for everyone's sake.
This is probably my favorite thing about Gaius - they don't give us a lot of glimpse to his motives as anything more than fatherly or wise-advisorly, until Edwin the bug-sorcerer comes along and reveals some of Gaius's hidden past, and when Gaius goes to visit the dragon, and then we see that Gaius is in this way deeper than Merlin. oh mannnn I love it.
I think the Merlin/Arthur ship will start embracing romantic claustrophobia as soon as the characters start actually having some sort of tension between them in the show... as it is they are still risking their lives for each other in more and more dramatic, emotional ways. Like, Ep 10's scene of Arthur warning Merlin about the badness of
Willsorcery - that brought a bitter note into fandom for sure, reminded people that things could go horribly, horribly wrong for Merlin because of Arthur.There might be actual beat name-dropping! And oh man way more politics. In fact I sort of want to make it more extreme than the 50s were. Something more like pre-WWI Wobblies labor-agitation stuff (hee, WWI IWW) but with the corresponding countercultural movement of the 50s. And plenty CIA sabotaging communist regimes.
Gaius is, I think, a dude who was doing his undergrad in something humanities or social sciency and was all revolutionary, and then when the war came as soon as the government started cracking down on subversives, he quick left that social scene and went to med school, started working for the government in the military hospitals. He was abroad as a military doctor for a while so maybe he saw some of these CIA crackdowns. Maybe now he is at a med school high up, or in military hospital administration, or maybe he teaches at university. I think he must've known Uther in the military. He has all those social theory and history of magic books that he gives to Merlin. While Merlin's not rooming with Arthur he's living with Gaius, old family friend, while his mother lives far away taking care of his grandparents. Eventually Merlin and Arthur move in together, but Arthur's gone a lot so Merlin still goes to see Gaius plenty. And Gaius tells him stuff about military history and politics and the Pendragons and helps him with his classes, and he's not exactly Merlin's introduction to the revolution but he provides some connections and the voice of reason.