Agreed.

But there are some of us who believe the show has lost something without his character; he's by no means an easy character to appreciate. He's a more cerebral then say Rossi; and his character was presented as having 'arrived' at where the younger character, most clearly Reid- are journeying.

Now if this is a 'I prefer one character over another,' I get that too. I actually appreciate Rossi as a character and don't think a return-of-Gideon would diminish his greatness in the least.