Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130530130219/@comment-5674726-20130601085827

Fimber wrote: Last but not least, I think it was once again weird to hear Arthur telling Gwen that once he is king, things will be different. Again it has to be emphazised that Arthur was actually talking about his father's death that would put him in a position of marrying Gwen. Aside from the fact that waiting for a loved one's death is not really a nice thing, it's very unlikely that Gwen would have waited another maybe twenty years until Uther died a natural death. I truly disliked this scene because it was tactless and inappropriate. It also was a clear hint on the showrunner's side that Uther was only in the way and the reason why the kids couldn't do whatever they wanted to do. With scenes like this one they contributed to the viewer's anticipation to finally see another main character, Uther, die. Not okay.

Even if she had, she'd have been well into her forties at that point, so there would be no children. Likewise, if Arthur was planning on waiting until after his father's death to marry Guinevere, then there are only two possible plans he could have had in mind, neither of which reflects well on him. Either he thought that it was okay for him to play fast and loose with the future stability of the kingdom by not marrying until he was in his forties, and marrying a woman who would be too old to bear children by then, or he wanted his father to hurry up and die before his time so that he and Guinevere would be young enough to be able to get away with waiting to marry.