User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-28600204-20121022101719/@comment-5102537-20121022193855

No, Im trying to set things straight according to what the show has presented to us. Considering this, I don't see Uther from his own point of view but from the show's point of view since their characters are their invention and they described them in a certain way for a reason. When the reason becomes mere action and shallow content which results in changes of characters and suddenly describing them one-dimensional, nothing makes sense anymore and the viewer will most of the time rely on what was shown last of the characters.

As for drowning children, aside from the fact that I think it was unnecessary to make him doing this because they did it to give Morgana more credit for her insanity, if you like to read more about it, you are welcome to read my other blog where I put my thoughts about this situation:

http://merlin.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Fimber/Why_I_understand_Uther%27s_reasons_for_banning_magic_-_and_why_no_one_is_a_saint_on_%22Merlin%22