User blog comment:Morganaforever/The most tragic character relationships in the show/@comment-5927613-20121231021243/@comment-5102537-20121231114605

I agree with you, Dmarie84 but I'm afraid that it was the real Uther because Julian Murphy and Bradley James said that Uther was always a villain, a tyrannical, selfish and dictatorial king and that people only thought he was a man of affection only because he went broken in season four and that it's always dangerous to make villains likable.

I've never heard a bigger rubbish before. I would even  say that it was a flat out lie because they built him up as a conflicted character who thought he was (mostly) doing the rights things. They described him as a loving father and as a person who did a lot of cruel things for the right reasons, as someone who never took pleasure in killing sorcerers and who never tormented them. It was always said that Uther wasn't a villain and Anthony Head mentioned several times that he was glad that the show runners gave him something to work with and that he was happy that Uther was not meant to be a mere villain but a multidimensional character who wasn't always wrong and had good reasons. Then the producers changed it, claimed in interviews that he was always a villain and hope that the viewers believe it. Ridiculous.

And claiming that people thought he loved his children only because he went broken... well, aside from the fact that it actually is an insult to the viewer's intelligence, the very fact that he went broken and suffered in a vegetative state speaks for itself. His love for Morgana was the very reason for it. So no logic in that statement whatsoever.