User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-28600204-20121022002037/@comment-5102537-20121022084956

Gboy4, I will make this relatively short because I just came back home from the UK and if we start to compare a fictional character to Hitler we will also compare other real people to Hitler and other fictional characters to each other AND to those we consider to be like Hitler and the debate will never stop...

Hitler was a mentally disturbed man who had suffered from the violence of his father towards him and his mother and according to history he began to hate Jews when - being poor, and outsider and physically sick due to malnutrition - looking for a direction which was provided to him in the anti-semitic organisation he became a member of. He tried to sell his artwork to Jews and didn't succeed, which pretty much was enough for him in his deluded mind to personally hate Jews, and connected with the organisation, he began what he began, most of all conquering and ruling the world to even build an entire, super-modern city (Germania) only for himself to have people worship him.

Uther didn't hate a particular race because people who use magic are not a race, but he hated and feared a very real supernatural and dangerous thing of a religion that not only caused the death of his wife but also the nearly complete desctruction of the land before he came to Camelot. He didn't want to rule the world, not even the entire land but only his kingdom and he thought he had to protect non-magical people from the "evil" of magic. No attempt to have people worship him, no conquering of and wars with other kingdoms, no hate for a race but for something uncontrollable and dangerous that corrupts the heart and soul of men.

Hitler knew that jewish people were human beings, yet denied them this in order to manipulate the people of Germany so that they follow him - Uther believed that sorcerers/people who practise magic are corrupted minions who serve the real evil, the Old Religion, something very real in the Merlin universe and not just a matter of belief like it is with our religions.

Hitler = insane man longing for total power, for being worshipped and immortal (did you know that he was a fanatic about supernatural things and esoteric and based the war and his most important decisions on what fortunetellers and psychics told him about his destiny?).

Uther = a broken man who lost his wife longing for getting rid of and taking revenge on the supernatural thing he thought was evil without wanting to rule the world or the entire land.

I think that the producers wouldn't have made Uther a likable character if they intended to compare him to Hitler because this would have been quite a dangerous thing to do.