User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/Which reign is better: Uther's or Arthur's?/@comment-5995315-20130123002810/@comment-5995315-20130125141158

Hi Fimber --

Yes, I agree that there comes a point where Uther cannot be blamed for what his children do. It does indeed raise the unsolvable question of what Uther's parents may have done to him and so on in an endless regress.

If Uther were the most perfect father in the world, could he have saved Morgana? I used to think yes, but now I seriously doubt he could have. With Arthur, there's also the fact that Uther had no wife to help him raise a son. And even if I think Arthur could have benefited from a different kind of parenting, would that in turn have weakened Arthur in some other unforeseeable way?

Another fact in Uther's favor is that Arthur and Morgana both have dominant personalities. While Uther could have moderated that somewhat in their formative years,  it is true that in the end, they became adults with an adult level of responsibility.