Talk:Mordred/@comment-37001937-20181016045542

Lots of comments, and I will probably repeat what some have said, but... I don't think that Arthur was to blame for anything that happened to Morgana and Mordred. Arthur had a complicated, cruel history with magic and its practitioners. He only knew the dark side of magic, which caused him deep pain. All of his family betrayed and lied to him. Uther used magic to conceive him, and as consequence his mother died. Morgana discovered she had magic and that her father had denied her a right to the throne and hated everyone for it, even Arthur who did nothing but love and help her. His uncle became Morgana's ally for reasons that were never explained. If anything, he should have supported Arthur because he was his blood nephew.

It was Merlin's job to change his mind about it, and he never did for fear of reprisals, even though he considered Arthur his friend. This of course, is the writers' fault because in delaying the magic reveal they only did damage to the Merlin an Arthur friendship based on lies and mistrust. Sound familiar?

Uther's death was a great opportunity to reboot, or reset the show in a new direction where both Arthur and Merlin could grow and the role of magic users in the kingdom was explored and developed.

And yet, I feel like Mordred's turn to the dark side couldn't be prevented because he blindly loved Kara. She was vengeful, blood-thirty, and violent, and sadly Mordred couldn't, or wouldn't see it. It made no sense because he was against Kara killing the knight in the cells, and refused to attack the knights in the woods with magic. It was contrived and lazy writing that Mordred didn't see through Kara's evil, when he rejected Morgana in With All My Heart. Kara would have gone right back t Morgana if they fled together and the battle at Camlann would have ended the same way.