User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-5519601-20121022103137/@comment-5102537-20121022111152

So when your parents punish you, you consider them to not love you?

And when your parents want to sacrifice themselves for you, meaning that they want to die for you and give up their house, money, job and whatnot for you (kingdom, in Uther's case), you think they are only doing it out of fun and because they think you will restore it all again and do what they demand of you? I hope not!

Yes, Uther said in this latest epsiode that love is unimportant and that he only cares for Camelot. That's the very point! This is the very thing I was referring to because it CONTRADICTS everything we have seen before. It denies and negates his entire character and what the writers showed us before. That's the whole point. THIS VERY epsiode made a mockery of it all and destroyed their own creation.

It's like as if a writer now writes an epsiode about Gwen or Merlin having always been members of the local circus and never ever loved anyone, Arthur or whomever but were only pretending to be a sorcerer and a former serving girl. Do you see what I mean?

Love has never been unimportant for Uther, on the contrary. As a matter of fact, the entire Great Purge is based on his love for his wife and on his love for his children, as terrible and sad as the Great Purge was. He went completely broken after Morgana's betrayal because she hated him so much and he didn't give a damn about his kingdom anymore HOW if he never really loved them but only cared about his kingdom?