User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/Could have Morgause brainwashed Morgana?/@comment-5102537-20130311075520/@comment-5102537-20130317141712

This is an excellent analysis and your ideas are much better than anything I've ever seen on the show ever since season four.

I would completely agree with you if there had been at least a hint or a mentioning that both Morgana and Uther changed into evil socio- or psychopaths due to their deaths (as funny as it sounds). Alas, the producers said that Morgana had understandable reasons to become evil, meaning Uther and also the fact that Merlin posioned her, and they also said that Uther had always been a dictatorial and tyrannical, selfish king, regardless what they had shown us before. They wanted us to subsequently not feel sorry for him because they didn't want to "sentimentalise" Uther "only because he died". Even Bradley James claimed that Uther was always only a villain. Moreover, they wanted to show that Arthur seperates himself from Uther and gets away from his father's legacy, which - and that's the funny and ridiculous thing - he didn't do since he not only continued persecuting sorcerers but also in the end died because of evil magic.

As you know, I  don't consider The Death Song of Uther Pendragon as an epsiode that fits the context of the show because to me it was all only a big and silly farce. They could have eplained it by the things you mentioned in your excellent post, but they didn't because, obviously, Arthur didn't achieve much on his own but simply continued what his father had started. Not to mention that, the more we saw of magic and learnt about the Old Religion, Uther was not so wrong after all. Therefore Arthur needed to shine in comparison to Uther. In order to to this, they turned Uther suddenly evil instead of turning Arthur into the Once and Future, honourable king.

So the audiences were supposed to believe that Morgana was only a victim and had good reasons and that everything was only Uther's fault, disregarding the fact that they intentionally had made Uther a likable character before due to his multidimensional character description.

Your analysis would make prefect sense. It's a shame that the showrunners had decided to show us inconsistency and illogical changes instead.

Aside from that, in regard to Uther behaving differently when Arthur entered the Spirit World - I'm not sure whether Uther meant what he said or not when he told Arthur that he loved him. It's entirely possible that he only said that to make Arthur turn around in order to give Uther the chance to escape the Spirit World. Moreover, the fact that he told Arthur that he can't be proud of him due to his son's "failures" shows actually that he had already changed. One would epect that Uther would be happy to see his son again, maybe even hugging him. Instead he belittled him and told him what a failure he is. This was all totally unlike him.