User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-4814726-20120622034718

This is a very interesting topic and I'm sorry for broaching it b4 Morganaforever's blog about it, but while I was reading some of the replies I couldn't help but think of Agravaine and Uther.

Here we are talking about Morgana's being a psychopath, when both Agravaine and Uther have slightly insane tendencies, too.

Agravaine's only real reason for helping Morgana was becuz he had an insane crush on her. One could argue that he also blamed Uther and Arthur for Igraine's death, but why would he do that? This is why I though Morgana might have put an enchantment on him, but his death squashed that theory. In the first episode of s4, Agravaine looked guilty when Arthur told him he was the one person he could trust and gave him the ring. But after that, its gone. Just doesn't even care. Then finally when Morgana says that all the crops should be burnt it was like he thought 'Holy... How did I just now notice she was this heartless?" But then, she told him 'sure, i like you. forget what i said about torturing to the limit of human endurance with my pet torture snake. now go and kill your nephew and i'll let you get to first base. (to self: not)' and everything was cool for him again. I mean, WHAT?

Then there is Uther. In my opinion, he was insane throughtout the whole show. 'Kill him, kill her!' I mean, he just makes me mad becuz he is so stupid and egotistical and just plain crazy. When Merlin was accusing Aredian of planting evidence, when he spoke 'out of turn' Uther was all 'YOU ARE A SERVANT DO NOT SPEAK AS THO U ARE ACTUALLY A PERSON AND HAVE FEELINGS. ONLY NOBLE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE FEELINGS AND ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES BECAUSE THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT THE TIME TO BE TALKING ABOUT STATUS BUT IM THE KING SO I CAN DO WHATEVER THE FRICK I WANT!'

I mean really? Of all times to be degrading someone becuz they are of 'lower class'? When this same person is trying to save your life-long friend? Its like Uther doesn't even care! I think he was insane. Everyone knows he's more dumb than even Arthur becuz he never even connects to people. He never knew Merlin's name and always thought he was a simpleton but he also had a few heart-felt conversations with him like in the crystal cave and in excalibur. Uther was always a stupid person in my opinion and every time i watch him in an episode this is confirmed in my mind. I can see why Morgana never liked him, just becuz he loved her didn't mean he ever acted like it. He was always smacking her and throwing her in the dungeons whenever she spoke her mind, the only time they ever got on was when Morgana was pretending to be as stupid and heartless as Uther to get him in her pocket. When morgana accused Gwen of being a sorceress, Uther didn't even question why his daughter who had been friends with Gwen for years now thought she was a witch and evil person. As long as she agreed with him she was a perfect little girl.

When Uther hears or sees something that doens't fit in to what he thinks the world should be like he has a temper tantrum, but since hes a king these temper tantrums result in him killing someone and looking like the good guy. No one tells him he is wrong becuz IF they do that they are put on death row! And so no one tells him he is wrong so he thinks he is always right! Again, it is a vicious circle, but Uther made it himself. He practically sets himself up to be decieved by Morgana. Becuz the sad thing is, when Morgana apologized to him in s3 ep 1, she just said exactly what he wanted to hear her say, so that she fitted in his own little world where he was always right. When she was pretending, they got on, but when she was being herself in s1 and s2, he hated her. But he never thought it was his fault. It was always Morgana's fault. So when Morgana told him she was wrong for being mad at uther for killing innocents, which was a lie, Uther cried tears of joy becuz his daughter whom he had lied to her whole life was admitting that he was the best dad ever and she had been an ungrateful brat whodeserved to be yelled at everyday.

I also know that he is a liar. In To Kill The King, I thought he was telling the truth about loving Morgana and how he was sorry for a lot of the things he did and that he was glad Morgana was there to advise him like her "father" had. But as he continued to be a ****head in later series I realized he had been lying. Sure, he may have been sorry, but he didn't so anything about it. And then he wondered why Morgana didn't like him anymore.

In the Witchfinder, Uther allowed Morgana to be questioned by Aredian. This made Morgana think that Uther cared more about finding and killing magic than about his friends and family. Morgana was frightened out of her mind during the questioning, but uther didn't even care. When he ordred Gaius' execution, a life long friend who had in actuallity done nothing against him, this confirmed what Morgana thought of Uther. And I say well done Gaius for ending the friendship with Uther, only he knows how to chew out a tyrant without getting killed. Hip Hip Hooray! for Gaius.

In Sins of the Father, he lied again. He lied to both his children his entire life to hide his crimes from them. When Merlin came in to save him from Arthur's rightful, if not a tad bit too over the top, wrath, he took the oppurtunity and exploited it like a cat would snatch a fish that was out of water. He lied thru his teeth with more skill and experience then Merlin ever did. Sure he loved Igraine, but that didn't change the fact that he was taking it out on innocent people and refusing to see his part in her death. But he didn't care. I was very mad that Merlin didn't even express any remote anger at Uther's lie. I could tell that he was hoping Uther would be honorable and take credit for his own actions, but no! He was a coward, a hypocrite, a liar. But who cares, when ur the king?

The last year of uther's life was his most sane in my opinion. It was Morgana's betrayal that triggered it, but it wasnot what he was upset about. When he said

Im sorry' to Arthur, that was him finally admitting, at least to himself, that he had been wrong. But his mind had a breakdown by that point, so he couldn't really convey it to anyone else. This is where most people pity Uther, but I don't so much. Well, ok, I do, but I also think that is where his redemption becomes possible by understanding what he'd done and being able to admit it to himself.

But i also feel bad for the guy when he dies, becuz i feel like Igraine was just waiting to chew him out in Avalon.

So, no w you know. I officially, think uther pendragon is insane. Suffering from anger management, rage disorder, and some other synfrome that makes it hard to let go of grudges. I may sound a bit dark, but it's what i think from seeing Uther's actions.