User blog comment:It's Good to be the Queen/Pendragon Family Reunion/@comment-5102537-20121014172327

Wow, that's a lot of speculation and I think you have quite some things wrong here.

As far as information goes, Uther returns as a spirit and not as a Shade. I don't know what happens in the upcoming episode, wether it's Uther's angry ghost who throws things and people around or wether it's another spirit that slipped through the door of the spirit world. Time will tell.

However, the fact that Arthur doesn't sentence sorcerers to death has its reason in total lack of sorcerers coming to Camelot. The writers conveniently avoided putting Arthur into a position in which he has to decide over life and death of a sorcerer or anyone who practised magic. Although he seems to be more relaxed on the magic-thing, it remains to be seen how exactly he will handle the situation once he finds himself in a position similar to Uther.

We also don't know if Uther's spirit is angry about Gwen and about Arthur having promised freedom to the druids. Well, according to the new canon of the show that Uther suddenly seems to be the Lord of Darkness I wouldn't be surprised if they brought him into this episode this way, totally disregarding that he was still alive when Arthur and Gwen already kissed in front of him and when he even sat at one table with the new knights on Arthur's birthday. Let's wait and see what will happen. I hope that they will regard logic and continuity at least in this epsiode.

The "unfair prosecution" that you mentined wasn't quite so black & white as you seem to see it. The Old Religion/magic has always been a very dangerous thing and not even half of the sorcerers that attacked Camelot did it out of revenge against Uther but their own reasons which weren't quite nice ones. Whilst I cannot justify the Great Purge, I see, however, that magic is not as pure and kind as people tend to see it. Numerous examples on the show have proven to us that magic is a very dangerous thing and that The Old Religion is not a club of peace-lovers, even more obvious when considering that magic had corrupted and nearly destroyed the land long before Uther came to Camelot and started the Great Purge.

Then Arthur. He is not a mindless puppet on a string, manipulated and influenced by his father only. He has his own reasons for hating magic and it is his own responsibility that he continues the ban. Moreover, he already knows about the circumstances of his birth because he said in The Wicked Day that his mother died at the hands of magic whereas in the previous seasons he had always assumed that she simply died in childbirth.

Vivienne and Uther. I doubt that we will get an insight into this relationship but I also doubt that Uther had an affair with her because Igraine couldn't conceive. It was confirmed by the producers that Morgana is older than Arthur. Although it is entirely possible that Uther had betrayed Igarine with Vivienne, I doubt it because his love for her was too deep, as evident when he started the Great Purge after her death. Given that after Igraine's death he had never been with another woman (as he told Katrina and remember, it has been more than twenty years already at that time), his faithfulness and loyalty was very deep too. I also don't believe that he only married Igraine due to status. He told Nimueh that Igraine was his heart and soul and it all points into the direction of deep and true love for her.

Morgana. Words can't describe how tired I am of this subject (not aimed at you but generally spoken). I can't stand the ongoing "Morgana has become insane because of Uther" anymore. I feel like running around in circles when always debating about the fact that Uther did nothing so terrible to Morgana that she could have ever become this insane and torture-loving killer. It's simply not true, it's totally impossible, no matter how often Morgana tells it to other people. Please, dear folks, rewatch the previous three seasons and the first three episodes of season four - maybe you will see then that Uther didn't drive her mad but that she is suffering from very different things.