User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-4135736-20120625091758/@comment-5102537-20120625114241

Yes, I would have expected that he lived until the end of the show because it's fantasy and also a family show, and I don't see why it's necessary to kill off main characters. I know that it's trendy. It seems that almost no tv show can do without this silly killing off characters, heaven knows why, but here on shows like Merlin, anything is possible, deaths of main characters are absolutely unnecessary and annoying. The reason is that most people watch a show just because of the characters they have gotten used to. Especially a show like Merlin lives through its characters and not so much through the stories. There would have been multiple ways of continuing Uther's story in connection to everything that happened with Morgana, magic, Camelot, Arthur, etc. It would have been much more tension and fascination. Even if the death was because of the actor's time schedule, I think it would have been much wiser to not kill him off already but to think of another solution to refer to Uther again later in case Anthony Head would want to return. It could have been an open end, like nobody knows if Uther is dead or not. He could have vanished due to some mysterious happening or whatever. I'm very, very discontent with the Arthurian legend that is now the focus of the show. If I hadn't known the show from the beginning and would now hear of it the first time, reading that it is about Arthur, his legend and Merlin as man of Arthur's age, I would never watch it because I don't see anything interesting in just another version of the legend with everything that is so well known.

I agree with you on the questions you added. That's another reason why Uther was killed off much too early. Why was the story about him created when it was ended so apruptly and without a conclusion? It doesn't make sense. Three years of raised questions and broached storylines, all that for cutting it off all of a sudden.

Yes, I too would have liked to know what's going on his in mind. I can think of some things but I would have wanted to see it on the show, not in my head. According to what Uther said to Morgana in the dungeon - "do you really hate me so much?" - he didn't seem to cast a stone at her for having magic. All he was interested in was if she really hates him, and to me this is evidence that his mental breakdown was most of all because of her betrayal and hatred, not because of her having magic. The fact that he obviously wasn't interested in his kingdom anymore ( and not capable of ruling) showed that it wasn't the kingdom he cared the most about but his family.

And that is why I didn't understand that he told Arthur that he wasn't a good father to him since it had been shown in all previous seasons that his children were the most important things to him, even more important than his own life. This was also overlooked in The Wicked Day.

I'm not sure if he blamed Morgause alone. There is still the question if he had known about Vivienne's powers (in case she had powers), although I think there is no reason why he wouldn't have known. Therefore, and due to the fact that he knew about Morgause's powers, he actually should have known about Morgana's powers as well from the beginning.

And in my opinion, it wasn't his fault what became of Morgana. She has always been a quite manipulative and angry character, even when she was still helpful and just. I only think that her change was much too exagerrated, unbelievable and without any valid reason. Could be that Uther thought it was his fault, but we will never know. In my opinion, one of the reasons he didn't want her to know that she was his daughter "for Arthur's sake", as he told Gaius, was because he knew that she was always walking the borderline and that she probably would fight with Arthur for the throne.

Those and many more questions have just been ignored and we will never get an answer to it, only because the show now continues with the boys and the unification of Albion - another thing that hadn't been broached for three seasons. What's so interesting in the unification when we have never seen any tension with other kingdoms before? It's a whole new and different story.

They totally failed to conclude Uther's character and I don't understand why. It also doesn't make any sense that a character suffers that much, only to die in misery and pain. What was this good for? People wanted to know if Uther will ever change his mind or not, but what we got was... nothing. This character has been cancelled but not concluded.

Yes, you're right, Arthur's "hatred" for magic was already shown in Sins of the Father, so this epsiode didn't add anything new, for nobody except Merlin, who suddenly became coldhearted and selfish. Such a shame.