Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130302204954/@comment-5147915-20130304095742

That is true. Valiant kind of was predictable whereas this one held so much suspense. Also another point you made: why didn't she just kill Uther? Maybe she wanted him to feel pain and heartbreak, maybe she was hoping that before the afanc got destroyed by Merlin, Arthur and Morgana. Maybe Nimueh was hoping it would poison one of the people closest to Uther: like Morgana and Arthur. Maybe that's why she created the afanc.

Maybe in by destroying Camelot, she thought she could destroy Uther as some people believe that King's are nothing without a kingdom and its people. But although she says the old religion does not care who lives and who dies. It turns out that it was actually her making it seem as though the old religion does not care as Merlin says: 'it is not the old religion who has done this it is you' (Le Morte d'Arthur)

But yes I do agree that more of Nimueh's past should have been explored so that we could understand properly why she did all those things.