User blog comment:SquarePoint/Theory about *The Death Song of Uther Pendragon*/@comment-5102537-20121025151245

This is one hell of a blog post! And if I was a producer and if I could, I would hire you as a writer immediately.

Especially your second theory came to my mind when watching the show and I was waiting for such an explanation up until the last second of the epsiode. Yet, as much I love your ideas and would wish them to be true (even though I would still dislike the epsiode in that case because there were multiple other and much, much better ways to bring Uther back), I think that with your cons you have already given an answer - they didn't intend to show us the depth that you described but wanted the viewer to hate Uther in order to praise and love Arthur.

All of your ideas would have made much more sense and would have provided the depth that this once so fantastic show meanwhile lacks of big time. Alas I think that the actual target audience is not ready for such depth in the producer's opinion as I think. And quite honestly, I too think that the majority of the viewers tend to see most things in black & white. BUT, most of all because the show meanwhile produces only simple and black & white stories.

You are right, if they wanted us to believe that this wasn't the real Uther and that there was more to it they would have given us hints. However, instead of a doubt at the end of the show, we got this silly immature banter between Arthur and Merlin again as if nothing had ever happened. Arthur just sent his father to the Spirit World after Uther told him what a failure he was and after he attacked him but all is great again and some joking around makes the day so bright... Your story/theory would have been for adults, the actual story we saw was done for kids.

I'm very disappointed that this show presents simple and naive stories for kids but make them horrifically cruel at the same time by showing cruel violence towards others, even family members and by showing that there is no mercy and no redemption. There is nothing that the youth could ever learn from it other than that there is no forgiveness and that family is what destroys you. Great message to the viewer, eh?