Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130323143713/@comment-5102537-20130404102353

"Power corrupts all the time, it can corrupt even the best intentions. That’s why one who yields power have to have immaculate integrity and strength of character. Even Uther was corrupted by his power. " 

Totally, yes. That's why he obviously realised that no one could ever control either magic or the own desire to use it. Imagine, in reality and our time, let's say half of the human population had or used magic and the other half doesn't. Including magic that makes people being possessed and manipulates them, opens the veils to the Spirit World, brings back the dead, creates immortal armies and controls the elements.... What a chaos! We would have destroyed this planet already. Even minor and a little more harmless magic would be used for selfish and wrong reasons. The good magic could never outweigh what people would do with real powers that would destroy everything. What people try to achieve today, with technology and weapons, is nothing compared to such magic we've seen on the show because while, for example, nuclear weapons are not really available for every person on the street, magic would get its grip on ordinary people as well as on leaders and governments. In our world and reality, we have to keep a balance between megalomania and sense and we know that we are not all powerful and that we depend on others. Now give people like dictators, racists, mass murders/serial killers and everyone else the power of magic... we wouldn't survive a year.

As for Nimueh, she said to Uther that they were friends. I believe that they really were - but, honestly, if my friend betrayed me and killed my loved one, I wouldn't stick together with them anymore.... In my opinion, the friendship was one-sided and Nimueh actually used Uther for whatever purpose and reason.