User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-4814726-20120626025727

I agree with this. The Wicked Day got semi-good reception at first because Arthur was crowned king, but I thought it was just plain depressing. I knew Uther was going to die b4 the episode even aired cuz I saw a screenshot of him dead. So I was really really happy cuz I was like 'well of course if Uther dies then Merlin will reveal his magic and magic will begin its course on the path to no-banmanship.' But NO! He gets stabbed, and Arthur does a Pendragon and blames magic for it, then says magic is evil and then calls Merlin a friend in the same sentence.

I might have been OK with it, if Merlin had told Arthur about the necklace thing. I think Merlin should also have gone darker, cuz his angelic personality is getting tough to comprehend with all the **** thrown in his face by Arthur. If he had just told Arthur about the necklace then it would have been Morgana's fault not Merlin's. It didnt have anything to do with Agravaine, they couldve told Arthur about the necklace w/out trying to make him believe Agravaine's betrayal.

Arthur made me super-mad in this one. So did Gwen becuz of that deleted scene with her saying magic was responsible for killing her dad. WT*? UTHER'S guard killed her dad, Uther killed her dad! And Arthur was being plain selfish. He has some good strong values, but he's got this very selfish view on life that makes him think everything revolves around him. He says ALL magic is evil becuz his parents died from it, which isn't relly even true. But becuz they were HIS parents, it makes killing other people's parents for having magic OK. The moment he realizes Merlin's magic didn't work, he threw a Pendragon temper tantrum w/out trying to see the logical truth in the situation. It's like Arthur WANTED to believe magic killed his dad, and that it would. He suspected that Dragoon would do harm to Uther from the start, there's no way he would react thatfast w/out considering anything else if he had truly thought magic was going to help.

I also didn't like how Merlin just takes all of Arthur's **** in that episode. Arthur told him to his face that he was eveil and he should be killed becuz it killed his parents. If Merlin had just told him about the neckalce and Morgana then that would have changed it. The only reason he didn't was to continue the storyline of Merlin hiding his magic and protecting Arthur, which I think has run dry by now.

And finally, to reiterate my opinion that Arthur should be wearing a dunce-cap instead of a crown...