User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-216.177.129.59-20130927140949

I don't know what to think of 5.03. There were some good moments and even funny ones but it feels like something wasn't right here.

The first thing that took me by surprise was Arthur using the horn and practicing sorcery without anyone even wondering about it. The total lack of 'Uther Reloaded' mentioning it despite the fact that his son has used magic seemed to be very out of character. Wouldn't this be the very first thing to scold Arthur for? Uther's most important goal in life was to destroy magic, yet he didn't even ask his son why he used magic to enter the realm of the dead.

Speaking of which, the second thing that took me by surprise was the fact that Uther pretended to have never even had a sorceress as a daughter and to not have died at her hands and the hands of magic. Arthur practicing sorcery is okay, Morgana being a witch and killing him is being ignored. I had expected him to talk about her in whatever way but she wasn't even a subject. She was the one who drove him to madness and who killed him. I don't think that chasing the commoner knights would have been his priority when the ban of sorcery was still his son's law which was not only what Uther had always found most important but what was also violated by Arthur at the same time when calling his father's ghost.

Another thing  found strange was that Arthur readily accepted the horn that the old witch gave him without wondering why she happen to have such a thing in her pocket just when Arthur comes to her rescue. Why did she give it to him and why didn't he wonder about it? Was he supposed to call Uther's ghost and was it indeed a plan?

I would also like to know why Arthur didn't even tell Gwen about summoning his father's spirit. She was his wife and he trusted her but he didn't tell her about such an important thing.

I've always liked the banter between Merlin and Arthur but here I don't know what to think of it, for it seemed to be misplaced in this particular episode. Arthur had every reason to be very upset and sad, yet he was in a mood for some fun.

Merlin was being childish here. He had the chance to tell Uther what he had done for Camelot and Arthur and also Uther but he preferred to humiliate him like an offended kid. He could have used his wisdom and understanding to put Uther's mind at rest about Arthur but he missed the chance. I don't blame Merlin for being upset but I blame him for being mean when he had witnessed the slow destruction of another human being of which he thought was misguided.

Uther would have had no reason to hate the round table for he had shared a table with them already the day that he was attacked. He also knew that Arthur had made some changes in Camelot while he was alive. Why ranting about it now?

Uther not being himself doesn't have to be mentioned again. I think it has all been said here already and I conquer with the criticism about his weird new attitude. This wasn't Uther but only some random ghost we've never met before.