User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-4135736-20121027131838/@comment-5102537-20121027140042

I agree with you Broman, except for the point that Morgana became so insane because of Uther. The missing year with Morgause that changed her so much remains a mystery and something must have happened that turned Morgana into an insane killing-machine. She was still different in season two and showed up as a whole different person in season three all of a sudden.

I also wouldn't have liked to see Merlin telling Uther all those things because Merlin has never been a mean and callous characters up until season four. He, as someone who knows some about souls in the afterlife (as well as Gaius does) should have considered the possibility that something happened to Uther in the Spirit World. Merlin knows what he went through the year before he died and before after losing Igraine, and no matter how angry and pissed he was at what Uther did, he should have wondered what happened to him since he knew that he never was, as you pointed out so well, a sadist or an evil man.

Sure, despising his hunt for Balinor would have been a very natural reaction and if he had thrown this into Uther's face, which would have been understandable, a softer tone later would have been appropriate since Merlin, up until season four that is, never took pleasure in hurting others, especially not hurting those who have suffered enough already. And neither has Uther ever taken pleasure in killing others, not even magic-users as has been stated out throughout the seasons from the very beginning. Merlin knows this, Gaius and Arthur even more so. Nobody cared for the reasons why Uther suddenly changed and what he probably might face in the afterlife. He was an human being after all and I think that especially eternity should be the thing that gives every soul peace, and yes, even Moragana's soul. Merlin was very cold and also mean, Arthur and Gaius were quite indifferent. It was an injustice to all the characters, not only to Uther.

What was Uther's character development for if they now destroyed it all in just one single epsiode? It makes no sense.