User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/Which reign is better: Uther's or Arthur's?/@comment-5995315-20130123002810/@comment-4623180-20130125112130

Great points all around :D

During Uther's reign he had Mary Collins after him (well his son.. but to get back on him), Valiant undermining their system, Nimueh after him (once again Arthur was cross-involved), Edwin, Tauren, Cornelius Sigan, Alvarr, the Troll, Morgause, the king and his jester who wanted to start war, Kilgharrah, and Balinor really would've not accepted to help Camelot if it weren't for Gaius and Merlin. Then we had Cenred, the Manticore and Alice, Gilli, and Agravaine.

Arthur on the other hand had Morgana (who sort of hated him out of nowhere), Odin (eventually reconciled), Annis (but reconciled), the druid ghost (who he also reconciled with) and Helios, he was all for the gold and not Arthur personally. So really, it was Morgana who had the true hatred for him, and Morgana only. Not to mention other outsiders like Isolde and Tristan but Arthur proved himself to them. Characters such as Aithusa are more like weapons of war and destruction and not personal enemies of Arthur.

But I do agree, the kingdom was a lot less stable with Arthur (he didn't have some things Uther had like the peace with Caerleon's father), I'm not sure whether we should see this as bad writing from the producers that makes Arthur look incompetent, or it's just how it had to be, the show got darker at this point and the stakes got high, risks and greater danger had to be faced because of destiny, blah blah blah...