User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/Which reign is better: Uther's or Arthur's?/@comment-5995315-20130123002810/@comment-5995315-20130125100551

Hi Gwaine --

I agree that the last half of the series depicted a lot of chaos, but in the end I didn't get the impression Camelot was a ghost town.

In fairness to Arthur, war was declared twice. The first time, which was his fault, he stopped it from actually taking place. The second time he decided after some debate to keep the fighting away from Camelot itself, at the risk of his life.

Except for S4E5, all these insurrections, intrigues and betrayals had one common factor: Morgana, Uther's daughter.

Part of Uther's legacy lies in his children. At the end of season 4 we're treated to the spectacle of Morgana and Arthur snarling over which of them had all Uther's bad qualities.

Being a father has nothing to do with being a strong king, but  scenes like that seem to imply that Uther was a failure as a father, and that this partly accounts for the later bloodshed.