Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130309111322/@comment-6047958-20130924121145

I think that Uther is just evil. And it wasn't punishment, it was de facto MURDER. I think he intended for Merlin to die at that moment, but when it turns out that Gwen, Arthur and Gaius saved him, Uther just didn't care.

I have a bit of a theory about this... and that is that Uther wanted to make Arthur mad. Well, maybe not consciously, but still, doing that to Merlin was cruel and the best way to get to Arthur. Lock Arthur up in the cells, fine, but don't waste the life of one of your most worthy subjects (even if you don't know it) just to punish him. That's just plain immoral.

So uncivilized... :-P

Uther is... well, lame, a hypocrite... let's just say I can completely understand why Morgana began to hate him, even though I don't agree with her later attitude, and her continued aggression after Uther's death.