User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-5465618-20121025035310/@comment-5102537-20121027141749

Well, thank you very much Sweenatured.

I agree that we all come from "good" (or from nothing if there isn't more behind life but if life is just what it is, a mere coincidence) and that a lot of powerful people forget about that and corrupt.

Uther corrupted in some ways and he was far, far, far from being a saint. However, I think he showed his nobility a lot of times when sympathising with Ealdor, saving his children, sacrificing himself and almost his entire kingdom, thanking and praising Arthur for his actions out of kindness towards him and others, admitting his own mistakes, wanting to pay for his sins when facing Tristan du Bois although he knew he would die, releasing those who have turned out to be innocnet instead of just washing it over and killing what disturbed him nevertheless, honouring the Kinght's Code even when his own or Arthur's life was at stake (not that I think that it would be any good for today's standarts) and much more.

He even showed tiny bit sides of nobility when sentencing magic-users to death when not torturing them but wanting to kill them quickly and even saying he doesn't take pleasure in killing them. It might sound odd since killing anyone is never noble, let alone burning someone. But for the dark ages it was canon and it only focused on magic-users/sorcerers who he considered to be pure evil, and unlike Morgana he never took pleasure in this. He also showed his nobility when he offered his own life to Morgana in order to save the innocent people of Camelot. This was something that made clear that his compassion did not only focus on his children but on strangers as well.

Since season four has shown us at the latest that his kingdom never mattered to him as much as his children when giving up due to Morgana's betrayal (not to mention all the situations before when he wanted to sacrifce himself for Arthur and almost gave up Camelot when searching for Morgana), his new attitude to put Camelot before even his son was totally ridiculous and highly illogical because it negated his former character description completely, even his death.