Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20140208132408/@comment-24629321-20140304024119

Agravaine was so frustrating—he came out of nowhere with very little backstory or character development ever given. At first, the only reason for writing him into the series seemed to be 'we need to have a traitor in Camelot.' (Though in time, he also served as an important part of Arthur's character development—by forcing Arthur's confidence in building a fairer kingdom instead of maintaining his father's ways.) The wiki reports that he blamed Uther for his sister's death and presumably, plotting against the kingdom Uther built was his way to achieve revenge. Personally, I remember seeing a deleted scene from the second episode of season 4 in which Agravaine says to Morgana something to the effect of 'I've already professed my undying love for you, what more do you want?' It's not much, but it would certainly have been helpful to have left that in!