User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-5644179-20121022084321

Uther Pendragon was a man who lusted after power and control. He seized the opportunity to regain that power when the veil was left open. Knowing the decisions his son made as the reigning monarch ignited his appetite to regain control, in essence to do things his way, the right and only way. He was driven by a self fulling omnipotence and his legacy reeked with it. In retrospect we are allowed to only skim the surface of his treacherous control, for example HE wanted a child, and the bargain he made cost him his wife’s life. HE wanted all magic to be annihilated from his kingdom, and this cost him the relationship he had with Morgana. There was never a compromise or exchange of values or ideas, as with the Druid boy’s freedom (Mordred), there was only his way. I believe that in life small things slightly softened him, for example when Lady Helen came to sing, and his endearing love for Morgana, yet in death there was nothing to arouse a sensitive vulnerability, death quenched any grace he had left and we are forced to see his true decaying heart, a heart consumed and obsessed with the only thing left of him, an appetite for power and control.