User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-28600204-20121022101719/@comment-5102537-20121023000241

Ah, I see. Yes, it was my fault, I seem to have swalloed the rest of the sentence about the children and Morgana when editing my post. Sorry. What I mean is, when they made Morgana so insane (which was a shame too) and hating Uther so intensively, they needed to give Uther something that justifies Morgana's hatred for him. At first it seemed as if Morgana hated him because of what he had done to her kind but soon it became clear that she most of all cared about herself (again, this was such a shame when she used to be such a great character). So her reason for hating Uther shifted to the personal level only which made Uther's cruelties towards children with magic superflouse. Then I thought that giving him the hallucinations about the children he drowned was to show how much he secretly suffered from this, being troubled by his bad conscience. It made sense at first and I accepted this as a way to build up the character and to show the viewer that he did not enjoy what he did during the Great Purge at all, proving that he wasn't a monster actually. This has been completely destroyed by the latest epsiode in which they only referred to his minor flaws like disrespecting servants/commoners and by making him suddenly a king who only cared for Camelot instead of his children.

And with this epsiode they indeed used him as a tool to show some weird kind of character development for Arthur, which was quite odd since Arthur is not thirteen anymore but around thirty years old, a grown up man who should have found this way already long before. Needless to say that he STILL hasn't lifted the ban of magic although he used magic himself and even hid it from his wife Gwen. By changing Uther's character and reducing him to a powerhungry psycho and by having Merlin enjoying hurting Uther by telling him what he thinks of him and by having Arthur being a hypocrite himself who still hasn't found his own strong personality and by not being interested at all why Uther has changed so much and if he maybe is a tormented soul in a cruel afterlife, they did such a great injustice to everyone that I can't understand why they haven't done it differently by developing the characters logically and by granting them what they used to be throughout the show.

The other characters I found interesting on the show, the questionable ones, were Morgana before she ended up being crazy and a brutal torture-loving killer in season three (shame, shame, shame), Kilgharrah and Gaius. Gaius is also someone who isn't quite pure and white... Kilgharrah is still a mystery. The not so questionable characters I liked were Gwen and Lancelot, both belonged to my favourites too and Lancelot still does!

On other shows there are quite a few. Lionel Luther, for example and Spike and Angel, Crowley from Supernatural. My husband has shown me some on Star Trek but although I think it's a good show I'm not so much a scifi fan and certainly not a trekkie.