User blog comment:Fimber/Why I understand Uther's reasons for banning magic - and why no one is a saint on "Merlin"/@comment-4814726-20120627233958/@comment-4814726-20120628160231

I agree that Uther was fairer than most medeival kings, but this tv show is made in a modern era. It will hardly be historically accurate since its based on myth besides.

I do feel soory for Uther. When I watch the show it seems to me that he's lost a lot of his good character traits the same day he lost Igraine. I cannot imagine killing another human being. Regardless of how bad Uther wrongly thought they were, it is still a crime to kill so many people. If Osama Bin Laden walked into my house, I wouldn't be able to kill him even if I could(ad if he wasn't already dead).

I think that to kill anybody, you need to have a sort of thing going on in your head that other people don't have. Some people kill for pleasure, others for justice, some for defense and by accident. But I imagine that once you kill a person, you've crossed a boundary, a big line you never knew existed. I feel like the world would be very frightening after that line was crossed. I've heard of people who kill for nothing but pleasure, Im not sure if they have to be pychopaths, but I know they exist. A man can walk up to little innocent kid and offer him candy, and then strangle for no reason other than impulse or pleasure.

Uther kills for pleasure. Not the pleasure of killing, but the pleasure of doing what he thinks is right, but more about easing his own guilt and grief over Igraine. He was unstable that whole time, i've heard that (if ur not a pyschopath) killing hurts. Like a piece of you dies every time you kill. To have that many lives on his conscious cant have een good for his health. And it just kept getting worse and worse as he continued to go about healing his mind in the wrong way. The first step to healing is forgiveness, and he never gave that much thought. Maybe becuz he was too proud to do so. Pride is one of the ... one of the bad sins among anger, lust, glut, and the rest. It makes you do dangerous things, and it stops you from being able to connect with people.

There is no way to know how exactly the whole business btwn Nimueh and Uther went. It could have been that Uther threatened her, ordered her to make this happen and didn't listen to her warnings. So when his wife died he couldnt blame himself becuz of his pride so he went after something else.