Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130214143847/@comment-5102537-20130301104158

Very welcome, Arthurlover7. Looking forward to more discussions about the awesome first three seasons :-)

MerlinDragonLord, what you wrote is absolutely plausible :-) As a matter of fact, I think that the entire show is actually based on Uther because without him, none of what we saw would have ever happened. Actually, even Merlin's existance is based on Uther since it was Merlin's destiny to come to Camelot in order to protect Arthur and to restore magic in the land. Without Uther, Merlin woudn't have had a destiny, at least not this destiny. The epsiode with Dragoon you meant was "Queen of Hearts" of season three.

Yes, ReganX, I absolutely agree. All evidence was against her and Uther had no other choice than to believe that Gwen was the one who caused the plague.

It was his overall arrogance toward servants that made his decision in regard to Merlin so unusual when he generally was quick in judging or dismissing them and most of all when he was so desperate to protect Arthur. Although Uther had good reasons to believe that Gwen was guilty (two times in three seasons), Arthur had some doubts that never occured to Uther. That's why I think that most things depended on his emotions and his temper. And distrust, of course.

However, when taking a closer look, there wasn't much distrust on his side towards servants. He released Merlin immediately when Arthur didn't believe that Merlin was the sorcerer, thinking that Merlin just was in love with Gwen and trying to protect her. And he even cried in front of Merlin when Morgana was mortally wounded. Not to mention that he trusted him with Arthur's life in "Excalibur".

I think that he was just quick in categorizing people into good and evil. Those who helped him/Arthur/Camelot were good, those who opposed them weren't. So I think that Uther has always thought that Merlin was a trustable good guy (aside from the occasions when he was accused of sorcery) until he learnt of his powers in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon". In my opinion, Uther was often actually naive in such things.