User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reviving your children/@comment-4832945-20111228215124/@comment-5036924-20111229002434

It may not be that they didn't notice as much as they just hoped people would gloss over the inconsistency. I guess Uther acts pretty arbitrarily anyway and changes depending on the mood he's in, so if he was feeling particularly sentimental and emotional he may have chosen to use magic, but if he was feeling more anti-magic and self righteous then he may not have.

Maybe he's just been completely nuts all along and never knew what he was doing. Ha.

I agree, though, big time inconsistency of behaviour. Favouring one child is not cool, Uther!