Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20151017160320/@comment-6175354-20151021131312

Eskaver wrote: I do hope he stays around more so than the Apprentice.

Once's solution to super magical people is make them the bad guys, make them powerless, or kill them off.I hate that.

It stops Deus ex machina, but it's pretty much deus ex machina or Ploit that kills them off. Elliot Knight seemed to describe Merlin, as more of a hands-off type of wizard. He gives over prophecies, and only guides when necessary.