User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/Which reign is better: Uther's or Arthur's?/@comment-5933518-20130120235922

I don't know who to choose between them. They were both great kings in their own ways. They both brought peace with the other kingdoms (Uther with the kingdom of Mercia, Arthur with the kingdom of Caerleon and Nemeth). The one (Uther) was more cruel because of his hatred for magic but he was respected (maybe some were afraid of him) and the other (Arthur) was more soft-hearted and respected and loved by his people. Both of them tried the best for their people (maybe Arthur risked a bit more and had different/more modern perspective and point of view in some subjects because Uther was stuck in the old traditions). Both of them made mistakes, too.

The difference lies on their personalities because their personality is what led them to the way they ruled the kingdom. The result is the same except of the fact that Arthur  changed the traditions, made them more "modern" by knighting "common" people, marrying for love a serving girl, creating the Round Table and being less cruel with magic. In some occasions, he was naive but he was young.

In the perspective of character, I'd choose Arthur but I cannot deny that Uther was  a great king, too. I really can't choose between them and I cannot definetely deny Arthur because whatever we say, he was a great and compasionate king and he was a protagonist and the show tried to show him as the great king he was in the legends. It's a pity to see people trying to underestimate him. Uther was the past, what mattered in the series was to see Arthur eventually becoming king and Albion being united (And also magic returning, which we didn't get to see, but this is another point).