Talk:Uther Pendragon/@comment-90.198.74.158-20200220031356

For its merits the show was a disservice to the Arthurian legend, it was utterly biased to Merlin, downplaying Arthur's glory even to the point of Merlin intervening with pulling Excalibur out of the ground, AND somehow Merlin wields the sword that can vanquish undead?! When just about any soldier LET ALONE Arthur is a far greater swordsman than he is!

Typical BBC being PC, making Gwen black, Merlin a kid and what got old fast the keeping his identity a secret like it's medieval Superman, making Valiant a villain, complete opposite of what that name means! I can go on with the flaws of the show, it's definitely not as good as Hallmark's Merlin or the old Excalibur movie of the 80s, for BBC adaptations I rate Musketeers above this one, Atlantis is about the same again some PC stuff added, Robin Hood had its flaws too similar to Merlin with revising things etc...

Anyway Uther was a bastard, I am not comfortable with his portrayal here though I like Anthony Stewart Head from his days as Giles in Buffy. Here he's largely unredeeming though he died a hero saving his son at least (Then ruined with his spirit being vengeful etc). They also shat on Lancelot as well which was sad, Morgana was the best character revision by far and Arthur was a badass at least throughout the show, whereas he isn't always in other versions. Here he started as an elite warrior, albeit his heritage was never clouded from him so he had access to the best training etc...

Overall the biggest flaw I felt was it was too Merlin biased and Merlin was a feeble, confused lad completely contrary to the usual Merlin portrayal of a wise old wizard.

I do not know exactly how the 'real' Uther was, in Sam Niell's Merlin he was a jerk that died of illness, in an old cartoon of Arthur he was a good king that was betrayed and murdered, in the Eva Green short lived tv series he was not villainous....

Oh well, he was a capable warrior in this version but he had bad footwork according to Arthur hehe.