User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Review./@comment-24467372-20140126164811/@comment-5668006-20140126233645

Well to be fair, like Nick said Jellal was manipulated by Ultear so decieving the magic council was actually her idea and her doing by tricking him into thinking she is just his assisstant. Also, like Nick said he was acting like an emotional idiot and science proves that when emotions are high logic is low and studies show that people with higher IQs typically are less emotional. To be fair to Jellal he is intelligent but he definitely is not the MOST intelligent person in FT series. We all could name several mages who have acted in a more intelligent way than jellal through out the series. Hell if he was THAT intelligent he wouldn't have tried to take on OS by himself. We will find out eventually and most likely soon whether or not he's dead but the signs as they are right now that he's toast, the reality is crawford got excited for 1 of 2 reasons. Either he saw jellals demise or he teleported jellal to tartaros hq where jellal will die. Considering we didn't see any signed of teleportation happening chances are zero finished the job.