Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131130132300/@comment-5102537-20131215123511

ReganX wrote: Guinevere not knowing wouldn't necessarily add up to Arthur not knowing as far as Morgana was concerned. Arthur and Guinevere's budding relationship seems to have flown under her radar until her vision of Gwen being crowned so she wouldn't have known how they interacted. From her perspective, it may have been perfectly credible that Arthur could have known what was happening to her but never said anything to his wife.

True, but she could at least have given Arthur the benefit of a doubt instead of jumping to conclusions. It would have been a good idea to give her good reasons to believe that Arthur was involved in her being held prisoner and being tortured. I'm still baffled that Morgana obviously had no desire whatsoever to take revenge on the Sarrum.

ReganX wrote:

As for Arthur's reaction to the Sarrum's comments about Morgana's captivity, I think that it's rather a pity that Ghost!Uther wasn't there for that.

Had Uther still been alive when it happened, I can't see him being able to sit there and play nice with the guy boasting about torturing his daughter. I'd have liked to see what Morgana would have made of it if she heard that Uther killed the Sarrum for what he did to her.

Indeed. That's one of the things in which Arthur and Uther distinguished from each other. While Uther would have never tolerated any kind of offense against his loved ones, Arthur never really stood up for them, except for Merlin on rare occasions and for Morgana once when he released her from the dungeons. Aside from that he always let others speak ill of his loved ones and didn't even seem to be hurt by the affronts against Uther and Morgana. He even did it himself when he compared Morgana to Uther in front of everyone and when he let everyone except Merlin think that the ghost of the druid boy returned in order to take revenge on Uther when it was Arthur's doing.

This was a character trait I really despised on Arthur and it actually was out of character for him.

Uther had killed Sarrum on the spot for what he did to Morgana.