User blog comment:Fimber/Background stories that have been ignored?.../@comment-69.31.103.45-20120901201839/@comment-5102537-20120902130424

I totally agree with you, Lurker.

And yes, Merlin should have an easy life because everything will come to terms with or without his actions anyway. At least it seems to be that way. Even Freya's death was necessary and obviously part of the whole destiny-thing because without her becoming the Lady of the Lake, Merlin wouldn't have gotten back Excalibur in order to save Camelot and give it to Arthur later to restore Arthur's faith. Lancelot's sacrifice was also part of the predestined future and even the Cailleach obviously knew that when she told Merlin that his time hasn't come yet.

Interesting thought about poetry or medieval-talking-style. I think it's not just that since every happening in the story has shown that in the end it happened to serve Merlin and his destiny with Arthur uniting the lands of Albion.

True, Arthur was raised by Uther and those he spent his youth with, not by Igraine. I find it a bit annoying that the show is riding the DNS-horse only and in regard to Uther only refers to the "negative genes". As you wrote, they didn't make it subtile that Uther always wanted peace and initated it, therefore I don't understand why they didnt give him the credit he deserved when Uther and his story is their own invention. Or are they doing it to state out the differences between Arthur and Uther? If so, why haven't they done this from the beginning and described Uther as a king of war? I think it's time that someone mentions that Arthur only continues what his father had started (aside from the hunt on magic, of course) and that it was Uther who taught Arthur the importance of peace. Camelot was strong enough to conquer other kingdoms and to gain even more power, yet Uther didn't even think about it. He didn't even take revenge on those who attacked Camelot.

Actually, the only difference between Arthur and Uther is the fact that Arthur accepts commoners and servants and that he is fickle, which Uther was not. He also is a little more relaxed on the magic-subject. But other than that, there isn't much of a difference between the two of them. In regard to most things, Arthur is the younger version of Uther. He even shares Uther's short temper but also his fairness, loyalty and strong bond with family and friends.