User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/Pendragon Family Reunion/@comment-5102537-20121014172327/@comment-5102537-20121015092328

That's exactly what I criticised about The Wicked Day because it is again such a big plothole! Arthur tells Agravaine and Merlin that his mother died at the hands of magic. The first time he heard that magic was involved in Igraine's death was when Igraine's spirit or fake Igraine told him. Before that he had been convinced that his mother died in childbirth.

If Arthur had known that magic killed Igraine, he wouldn't have said that it was his fault because she died in childbirth. Arthur can hardly have used magic when he was born... and he knows that Igraine died seconds after his birth. So, what magic could it possibibly have been? Even Gaius told Merlin that Igraine died simply in childbirth because he was forced to keep the promise about magic and to never tell anyone.

Then suddenly, in The Wicked day, Arthur knows about the magic and is obviously fine with it. Is it any wonder that I think that season four and The Wicked Day is the worst that I've ever seen on tv? They completely ignored the second-biggest secret on this show and went over it just so.

If they now subsequently think of a far-fetched reason that Arthur had known about magic but not about the deal that Uther made with Nimueh, it's all highly illogical! It was clear and undoubtedly the case that Arthur thought Igraine's death was his fault because he died of a natural reason, which was childbirth.