Thread:Fimber/@comment-5139779-20120814115133/@comment-5102537-20120815201648

Hi Loki!

As you know, I think his death wasn't a good idea at all but since he was killed off, I agree with you that there could have been much, much better ways to give him a proper end and most of all to conclude his character. It should have been a two-parter at least instead of rushing through a skewed comedy-drama epsiode dealing with two boys teasing each other and forcing the one who dies into the background.

If he had been the one sacrificing himself, he wouldn't have only saved Arthur but everyone else as well. Something which would have given him indeed redemption - and I think it was about time to give him redemption. However, the show has turned into a fest of ruthlessness and unethics, making the characters suffer and lie, betray, kill, torture and behave childish. It wasn't surprising at all that Uther saved Arthur since his children had always been most mportant to him. I didn't see this as a redemption. Everything he did was actually because of his children, to protect them and save them from "evil". Moreover, if Uther had been the one closing the veil, this would have answered the question if he had a change of heart or not after Morgana's betrayal.

The way they killed him off made him a helpless, old, tormented weak person who appeared to be a side-effect and who "finally died" to make way for Arthur, not worth to be dealt with any further and only good enough to be forgotten immediately.

I think there would have been multiple possibilities to end this character in a much better way, as well as for Lancelot to prove that he was noblest of the knights.

The Wicked Day couldn't have been worse, in my opinion.