User blog comment:MerlinNimueh/Series 6/@comment-65.112.34.37-20120616041545/@comment-84.61.122.81-20120616102716

We don't know whose choice it was to definitely kill Uther off, maybe it was the actor's choice, maybe not. All just speculation. Fact is that it happened much too early and that a lot of people were very dicontent with it because the story did not get a proper end and almost everything was changed as if season 1 to 3 hadn't actually existed.

"I think consistently having Uther alive and doing the same all later-rinse-repeat of 1. something happening, 2. Uther blaming magic, 3. Merlin coming to rescue would have just slowed the show doen"....

See, that's the point. Instead of continuing the development after everything that happened in season 3 which had so much potential for Uther - everything could have happened with him, his character was now completely open for any direction - they just ended it and let it be in limbo. Uther never slowed the show down, he was the basis for everything that has ever happened on it. Wether the actor wanted to leave or the producers wanted to have Uther written out in order to make Arthur King for whatever reason, the problem is that the show has become very average and incoherent ever since then. I would enjoy season 6 with Uther and with a return of logic and good stories. Without that, I can do without a 6th season.