User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-4135736-20120625091758/@comment-5102537-20120627132421

Again, I'd love to discuss the Uther-subject with you, Aithusa. Maybe on my Uther-blog? It would be too long here. However, I'd like to say that I didn't see him only acting as a king but more as a fearful father who did everything to protect his children, just most of the time in a very questionable way concerning magic. And as for Gaius, he "confessed" in public for everyone to hear, so Uther didn't have a choice but sentencing him to death. It was obvious that Uther couldn't bear seeing Gaius die when he left the balcony. Uther's mistake was to ask the Witchfinder in the first place, but certainly, he hadn't expected anyone close to him, like Morgana or Gaius being the ones practicing magic. And when The Witchfinder suspected them, it was too late already.

Anyway, of course I agree that Merlin didn't want to heal Uther before Arthur wanted to use magic in order to heal his father. I couldn't see any sorrow in Merlin either. It was all just about his failed plan, as he told Gaius after Uther had died. No word about Arthur, and that was quite cold and indifferent. Sitting in front of the throne room didn't make much sense, for Arthur didn't know he was there. It was Merlin's bad conscience because he surely knew what he had done when wasting time bantering and disguising as Dragoon instead of healing Uther right away when nobody was watching. He surely knew that if he had done it, Arthur wouldn't have told Agravaine about his plan because he wouldn't have had a reason for turning to magic in that case. Therefore Agravaine wouldn't have told Morgana, Morgana wouldn't have interfered, Uther would still be alive. It was Merlin's fault and he knows that. In this epsiode, I didn't understand anyone's behaviour. Gaius didn't care about Uther and didn't ask Merlin to heal him when he had done it in season one when Uther had those bugs slowly killing him. Merlin, the one who uses magic all the time to save the day didn't help Uther but only tried when he could use Uther's upcoming demise for his own advantage. Gwen didn't do anything to comfort Arthur except for looking sorrowful, no knight, no friend, nobody came to visit Uther, Morgana killed him although he was already destroyed and incapable of doing anything, let alone that she made way for Gwen becoming queen by killing Uther, Arthur was amsot about to leave Dragoon's hut when Dragoon ranted about Uther although it was his father's life at stake - but obviously, it wasn't important enough for him to convince Dragoon and to ignore his rants. And last but not least, Uther didn't even get a funeral for us to see.

What a terrible and badly written espiode, so illogical and callous. Ironically, the only "normal" and warm person in this epsiode was Uther, yet he was treated like a supporting character that had appeared one or tow times before.