User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/'We have a traitor in our midst' - AGAIN!/@comment-90.208.195.57-20121011061603/@comment-5102537-20121011104032

It's not true that Uther sentenced people to death for only walking past a sorcerer. That was just an exaggeration by Merlin when he was devastated because Tom was sentenced to death.

When Uther sentenced Gwen to death, he didn't do it only because she supposedly used a healing spell/item but because evidence was against her and he was naturally convinced that Gwen had started the plague in the first place. After she "denied" to break the spell (as Uther thought when he demanded her to stop it), he said that he had no other choice than to sentence her to death because with her death, the plague will come to end, hence stop killing the people of Camelot. It was a desperate situation that had to be solved as fast as possible because people were dying. Gwen was innocent but Uther didn't know that. So what he did was executing the law and trying to stop the plague and saving the people of Camelot.

When Gwen sentenced Sefa to death, her death wouldn't make a difference to what has happened already. Gwen executes the law but with Sefa's execution, the threat won't stop - having her locked up would have the same effect and she wouldn't be able to betray Camelot anymore.

However, as for the traitor in their midst, as for now it seems that the character of Sefa was used to show that even so kind people like Gwen have to commit harsh and even cruel things when they are in a position that demands responsibility of them. I'm not happy with Gwen's new behaviour and I'm not happy with characters that are merely tools to show the colder sides of once so kind characters. But we don't know how things will turn out. Maybe Gwen will spare Sefa's life, we just have to wait and see.