User blog comment:Fimber/When family is what destroys you/@comment-5102537-20121121121601

To explain again what I mean in just one response instead of responding only parts to each comment (hope you don't mind):

My question is why this show demonstrates to harshly that the family is what destroys you in the end.

I know that the Arthurian myths are harsh, brutal and cruel but I can't think of one that showed so much cruelty going on within the own family. There are parts of it in the legends, yes. For example Mordred killing Arthur but none of the Arthurian legends was a family story/movie/show. It was done for adults and not as a teatime-family show. The legends I know (though I don't know all of them) didn't start as positive, harmonic story that gave you a cozy feeling like this show did in the previous seasons. The legends also stayed true to its characters and didn't suddenly change them completely in order to add more thrill.

I don't see any sense in the fact that the Pendragon and du Bois-family is such a horrible club of hurting and torturing each other when it all had started so differently. Why? What's the reason for this? What could anyone possibly learn from seeing that father, daughter, son, brother, sister, wife, uncle and brother-in-law fight and damage and kill each other up to that extent? Wouldn't it be much better to show that at least parts of the family stand together and fight against exterior threats? Wouldn't it be far better if Morgana was an enemy of Camelot but not of Arthur himself, trying to find a way to reach her goal without destroying and killing him but by protecting him and trying to convince him, whether she is right or wrong with what she's trying achieve? Wouldn't it have been better if Morgana hadn't killed Uther but instead, despite all the quarrels and fear, had tried to save him just like he saved her when she was about to die? This would have made the characters much more complex, would have added real drama, would make the villains multifaced and believable. The way it was handled, Morgana killing Uther wasn't a surprise at all, it was only a matter of time.

I don't understand at all why they even destroyed the strong bond between Arthur and Uther even AFTER Uther's death. There was no reason for it and it leads to nothing at all because Arthur hasn't changed anything, he is still outlawing magic and the conversation with his father hasn't changed that. So what was it good for? There IS no development in regard to Arthur at all and Uther couldn't change that. I get it, some people hate Uther for what he did to magic-users and some even hate him because they think that he held Arthur back and that he treated Morgana badly, despite all the love and sacrifices he made for her - but honestly, even those of you who hated Uther because of that, it was always, always, always clear, all the time, that he loved his children deeply and that they were much more important to him than Camelot or even his own life. He said it and proved it several times, starting in season one up until the day he died when he went broken by Morgana's hatred, gave up his kingdom and his life because of this, sacrificed himself for Arthur, wanted to sacrifice himself for Arthur several times before and when he almost sacrificed entire Camelot when searching for Morgana. His love for Arthur and Morgana was always not to be doubted and totally indisputable, no matter how cruel he was towards magic and no matter how strict he was in educating.

Why on earth did they change that in his last appearance of the entire show? It makes no sense. I don't undertand why they continued his suffering even in the afterlife for eternity and why they destroyed the strong bond between father and son, hurting Arthur and hurting Uther both. What for goodness sake should adults and teens/children learn from that? Maybe that when your parents tell you that they love you, they only lied? When you love your parents and want to do the right thing, your parents will even try to hurt/kill/attack you after their death? What was this all about? I don't get it.

What I also strongly disapprove of and what I really see as a dangerous message is the fact that NO ONE on the show ever criticised Morgana for killing her father. Have you all noticed that? There wasn't just one single critical word about this. Morgana didn't just kill any enemy of hers but she killed her own father - after tormenting him beyond belief. And none of the characters on the show EVER criticised this. Why not? It gives the impression that Uther was an evil badass and that Morgana had good reasons, so who cares... Wrong, a daughter tormented and killed her father without being held responsible for it. In a family show. This is definitely not the right way to deal with it and it's irrelevant if everyone here loved Uther or hated him. The fact that it seems to be okay that children kill their parents is totally out of line and incomprehensible. Would be the same if it had been the other way around, if Uther had killed his daughter (which he didn't do and would have never done).