User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-4135736-20121027131838

Sorry about my one week absence, I have been so busy and I just didn't get the time to visit this wiki. I agree with your points Fimber, watching this episode made me just wish that they kept Uther dead instead of bringing him back and ruining his character in the process, The Death Song of Uther Pendragon is definately my least favourite episode of Series 5 at the moment. When I first read the spoilers of this episode, I was excited because I thought it would cover all the plotholes which was left by The Wicked Day (e.g. did Uther blame himself for how Morgana became?) but I couldn't see any of that. I also hated how Uther was portrayed as a sadistic brute, the way he smirked when he said "it brings me great pleasure killing you" to Merlin, now really, no matter how cruel and ruthless Uther was, he was NEVER sadistic. Uther was also very cold to Arthur in this episode, they didn't embrace when they reunited, and what happened to all his love and care for his son, knocking poor Arthur out like that.

Also not only that, Uther was actually USING magic, the one thing he hated the most, I thought he hated magic so much that he would not use it himself unless one of his loved ones were in danger (like when he persuaded Gaius to save Morgana). I loved it when Uther discovered that Merlin had magic but their conversation afterwards was a disappointment, I wanted Uther to show more shock and frustration at the discovery of Merlin's magic while I wanted Merlin to reveal that Balinor was his father, shout at Uther for betraying and banishing him, revealing how much he protected Arthur using magic, as well as revealing his frustration at hiding his magic because of Uther's actions, and perhaps revealing that he was the old man who called him a "stupid, arrogant old tyrant". I also wanted Morgana to be brought up in front of Uther by Merlin and Arthur, both of them telling Uther how his hatred caused Morgana to turn against them, leading then to deal with all the mess he created.

There were a few things I liked and that was the acting and of course the Arthur-Merlin funny scenes but I was very disappointed by this episode, it was even worse than The Wicked Day, hopefully todays episode involving Morgana and Princess Mithian will be better.