Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130316141226/@comment-5674726-20130328002944

''And Arthur was always weak and naiv. I'm not casting stone at Gwen for holding a grudge or being indifferent towards Uther, but I disapprove of her tactless behaviour that the showrunners had given her character, plus Arthur's lack of backbone.''

What I find troubling is that the mood of the scene suggests that we, as viewers, are supposed to agree with Guinevere about counting the days until Arthur is King, and to believe that everything will be better then. In the early seasons, they did a better job of showing Uther as a good ruler with flaws rather than treating his reign as something to be endured until Arthur was King. Arthur was supposed to bring about a golden age - not that he achieved this - but that didn't mean that Uther was a bad King, just that Arthur was supposedly going to be better.