User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-28600204-20121022101719/@comment-28600204-20121023005409

I'm gonna keep this short coz I'm very tired. I think if he regretted what he did at the purge he would have tried to atone for it, and I think the main purpose of Uther (other than to give someone as awesome as Anthony Head a role) was to develop the other characters because they are all hugely affected by him especially his children and Merlin because Merlin is trying to undo Uther's atrocities as fairly and peacefully as possible which constantly gets tougher for him, and both Arthur and Morgana were/are both realising what kind of man he was and reacting differently, Morgana's reaction is obvious but Arthur was always torn from what his father taught him and wanted from him and the kinds of things that he has seen and the beliefs he formed from them and he always needed a way to move on from the huge shadow of his father (and predecessor) and this episode has allowed him to start doing that.