User blog comment:GWAINE/Finale Speculations...?/@comment-195.41.137.218-20121129163159/@comment-5102537-20121201142454

"I wonder if they're trying to retcon Uther's achievements in terms of bringing peace to Albion, so Arthur can be shown (or said) to be the one to bring peace, or if the peace that Uther achieved is supposed to have fallen apart after his reign, and Arthur is now rebuilding it. "

I'm sure that they're trying to retcon his achievements in order to finally give Arthur something that differs him from Uther, aside from the Round Table, and to emphasize that Arthur is the peacebringer and not Uther because they obviously saw that since Uther wasn't a king of war, there was little to nothing left for Arthur to achieve. So subsequently changing Uther into an evil tyrant makes Arthur the better man. It's getting even clearer if you read Julian Murphy's latest interview which made me scratch my head because I can't believe that they really think that the fans are so naive:

Uther also returned in series five's third episode - was it satisfying giving that character a final send-off? "Yeah. We always intended to do that, and it was just a question of finding the moment to do it. But yes, that's been an idea for a storyline since we talked about his death, so it's always been part of the plan.

"It was a lot of fun to do. For us, it was fun to do a poltergeist episode - we've never done one of those before and it was fun and interesting to do. And actually quite scary at moments."

Arthur and Uther's relationship ended on quite a sour note. Was there ever talk of giving them a happier ending? "No... y'know, it's interesting - in people's minds, since he died, Uther's become this figure of affection, but actually Uther was a selfish, tyrannical, dictatorial king! And he behaved that way for his entire time on Earth!

"We didn't want to sentimentalise what was the truth of Uther's character, just because his death makes people view him more fondly. It was nice to twist it back, actually." Needless to say that suddenly turning a character into the opposite isn't believable or good storytelling.