User blog comment:Morganaforever/Arthur and Morgana/@comment-178.128.52.19-20120103194059/@comment-5036924-20120105203758

You don't see the ethical issue of a father, who's deliberately keeping his children from knowing that they're brother and sister, allowing them to flirt under his nose? THEY did nothing wrong, since they had no idea, but Uther was most definitely either stupidly unobservant or pretty sick for allowing it to go on. How would it be in any way okay for him to allow it in the way he does? Apart from anything else, he's being dishonest in not giving them all the facts so they can fully understand their situation, which is surely a breach of ethics in itself.

While flirting in itself may not produce either a marriage or a child, it certainly lays the groundwork for it, particularly as you go further back towards medieval attitudes (which is so not what the show is about but I'm just saying), and if I'd been Uther, I would surely have been deeply disturbed and would want to avoid any whiff of romance between them. Basically, unless he's a creepy dude, he ought to be discouraging a potentially incestuous relationship from occurring since he is the only one who knows they're related, yet in S1 he's virtually giving them his blessing.

It's not about "growing up", as you put it, since I don't think most grown-ups would think sibling romance was particularly okay. Obviously this is straying into a more complex ethical conundrum about whether or not it's morally wrong for blood relatives to flirt/fall in love/marry, which could get heated. So at the end of the day what we're saying is that due to shoddy abandoning of plot-lines, Uther's actions look dodgy in hindsight. They should never have teased us with Arthur/Morgana if they were only going to decide it was inappropriate one series later and sweep it under the rug.

I agree with Morganaforever; why on earth was there such a change in plan since they knew from the start it was a family show and actually tried to make provisions against Arthur/Morgana being incest by emphasising that she was his ward and not his daughter? It was perhaps always walking close to the line where it became incestuous, but I don't think there would've been any problem with them carrying on the ward thing and allowing Arthur/Morgana to continue.

Suppressing Bradley and Katie's chemistry is impossible anyway...