User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-68.84.187.148-20120628163524/@comment-5102537-20120714204936

Interesting point.

On the other hand, Arthur already knows that there is bad magic as well as good magic, or better that magic can be used for either bad or good purposes. He is a grown up man and actually wouldn't have to simplify things that way, like a small school boy does. Maybe it was indeed the writer's intention to describe it that way, but if so, they just gave the characters again the more simple mind of a child. I think, for an adult and someone who has experienced unbelievable and complicated things already, it would make a difference wether he thinks that bad magic this time won out over good magic or that magic at all killed his father. In the end it was just magic, and better differing between those who use it and to what purpose they use it than to think that magic itself is evil. So actually, it would have been better to show him the difference instead of making him believe the same that Uther believed, which was that magic always corrupts and can't be used for good. To see the truth, you need to see both sides, not just one, but here they gave Arthur just that one option.

I think it wasn't fair or right to keep the secret about Morgana's part in it from Arthur. Seemed to be either ignorance, doubts in Arthur's intelligence or manipulation - or all together. Not very nice.