User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-4650675-20120627084036/@comment-5102537-20120627140312

Yes, that's my biggest question too. I would have liked to know, from the beginning of the show already, if Uther would ever change his mind or regret what he had done. It's beyond me why the writers have ignored it completely. Cancelling a character without concluding it is just bad storytelling.

As for Arthur becoming king if Merlin had succeeded in healing Uther, Arthur wouldn't have become king but only regent king unless Uther had resigned. Arthur couldn't know if Uther had done it or not, he must have assumed that when Uther is healed that even as regent king Arthur couldn't just do anything he likes. Not to mention that Uther could have emotionally recovered again any time and then would have taken back the throne. So, although before the episode started I hadn't epected Uther to die either, but it was clear to me when Arthur had decided to use magic.

No, we can't be sure if Uther had mentally recovered, that's true. But Arthur couldn't either. And just speculating that his father would accept magic afterwards could never be enough to make such a big promise.

Morgana knew that "someone" was about to heal Uther with magic. If this wasn't the chance to prove to him that magic, the thing Uther has always fought, could even help him and be used for good... magic, the enemy of Uther saves its own arch-enemy... then what was? It was absolutely silly and dumb of her to cross the plan. She did everything wrong, in regard to killing Uther and in regard to Gwen who now had the chance to become queen. Let alone that chances were good, even for her, that Arthur would soften towards magic if magic had healed Uther and hence becoming an ally for Morgana. THE most important ally at all. Heck, it would have even been the best idea ever if Morgana had healed Uther herself. Neither Arthur nor Uther would have killed her but, on the contrary, she would have had the chance to make peace and to bring back magic back to Camelot or at least to show that even a corrupted person like her could use magic for good. But she didn't want to. Instead she acted stupidly and filled with hatred.

It would have been easy for Agravaine/Morgana to send some men after Arthur in order to either kill Dragoon or even Arthur. Why weaken Arthur and Camelot when killing Arthur would have been a much easier way? And why desperately turning Arthur even more against magic? The answer is that Morgana doesn't care about the greater good or bringing back magic to Camelot but most of all about her own power and the throne. But for that, killing Arthur would have been a solution. Agravaine would have had the right to the throne, as we could see when Arthur gave him the seal when he was about to sacrifice himself in order to stop the dorocha. It would have been all so easy, so many possibilities and ways. But no, she wanted to kill Uther and made one mistake after another.

Yes, the writers tend to forget about the most important things. And that's just incomprehensible and explains the plotholes and sometimes weird changes in situations and characters.

Yes, maybe there were differences in what can be healed by Merlin but I actually doubt that. It would have been enough to mention that Merlin has increased his healing powers instead of suddenly making him master over life and death and also ignoring the price for saving a life. Another plothole, and a huge one.