Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130316141226/@comment-5102537-20130325114345

"I cannot believe I am writing this after spending  a huge amount of time in thinking and refuting all your points and defending the protagonists myself but there you go. Irony exists everywhere. "

Hahaha, yes, it's trying to see things from many sides, I guess.

And given that, I agree that Gwen had good reasons for not wanting to take care of Uther, of course. It was just way out of line and rude to say this in front of Arthur while he was desperate when his father was not only broken and destroyed but also dying of the stabbing wound. If she really loved Arthur she wouldn't tell him that she doesn't care about his father and leaving him alone with his grief and desperation by that. When you're sad and desperate, you want others, especially those you love to be by your side and to ease your pain instead of showing you their indifference. She did only her job and she left no doubt about it. That's what was tactless and cold.

Besides, when a completely destroyed and helpless person suffers so visibly and then even dies, even someone like Gwen who held a gruge against him or, as she said, didn't feel anything for him, would feel at least a tiny bit compassion. Uther wasn't destroyed out of fun but because he lost his daughter and probably had reconsidered his actions towards those with magic. He was punished enough and Gwen knew that.

Moreover, I've always wondered why she thought Uther was a bad king before she lost her father when she obviously supported the ban of magic. When she was sentenced and accused of having used magic, she knew that Uther acted according to the law. The law she supported. So what reasons did she have to think that Uther was so bad? His actions against her were never personal but only the actions of a king who had to protect his kingdom. Arthur wasn't so different later when he was king. He also persecuted sorcerers and didn't lift the ban of magic. So was it all only about the very normal and common fact that royals weren't supposed to marry servants? Let alone that Gwen experienced first hand what magic did with Morgana, her former best friend. So she actually knew that Uther wasn't so wrong after all.

And when Arthur banned Gwen from Camelot and even threatened to kill her if she ever returns, she had no problem with that and married him later regardless. Uther banned Gwen in order to protect his son. Arthur banned Gwen out of personal feelings and hurt pride.

Unlike Gwen, Lancelot behaved most noble and considerate when he didn't want to cause trouble between father and son and then left Camelot. He respected both father and son and also the law and tradition.

As for Arthur speaking ill of Uther, he compared his psycho sister several times to his father, which was a real joke. How could he ever compare his father he loved so much to an insane torture-loving killer who stops at nothing only out of personal reasons and insanity? Uther was far from being a saint but he never enjoyed what he did. That doesn't excuse it but he did what he thought he had to do to protect his family and kingdom, especially when considering the fact that magic had almost destroyed the land before he took the throne. Morgana enjoyed the misery of others. She didn't just accept it as a necessity but felt pleasure when she saw her "enemies" suffering. She was not only worse than Uther but she was even the opposite of him because she didn't want to protect family and friends, but, on the contrary, wanted them to suffer and die.

Arthur can't seriously think that his father was like her. Otherwise he wouldn't have tried to be like him and he wouldn't have loved him. He knew that Morgana destroyed his father and sent him to his own personal hell, yet he dared to compare him to her. But the show wanted us to believe that in the end, it was all Uther's fault and that Arthur was such a sweetheart.

I wish Lancelot had stayed until the very end because I'm sure, with him around, his point of view and real nobility, things would have been different. Actually, he would have made the perfect king.