User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-5644179-20121022090619/@comment-5102537-20121022200417

Since I'm not a religious person and don't believe in the bible or in any other holy book, I can't take religious examples to round up my point of view of how the world might work (and little do we know). I sincerely hope that you don't really believe that even babies can be evil.

As I said, what we experience and what we inherit, what we learn from the beginning of our birth (and even before as unborn beings) which has a great influence on how our brain develops, shapes our personality. I don't know if there is a soul but if there is, it might be the essence of our mind and consciousness which applies to every living being and not only humans. If the brain is not damaged in some way, meaning, if the regions that are responsible for the conscience and for differing between right and wrong are working properly, no newborn life is evil. All that a baby wants is to be safe and secure, they don't even dream of thinking of being or becoming evil. What we experience from the beginning which is added to our learning process up until death makes us the do the things we do while we are alive. We are imperfect beings full of flaws, fighting for our survival. Naturally, we all make a lot of mistakes.

Anyway, on the show, the soul is a very real thing and I find it extremely disturbing to first present us a multifaced and NOT evil person but a caring father and then turning his very soul into a cruel psycho. The reason why they did it is not a philosophical or mind-boggling one at all, it was simply done to let Arthur appear to be the much better person in comparison to Uther and it was done to let the viewer now get over Uther's death once and for all. A very, very cheap way of concluding a character, a very questionable message to send out to the audience, especially the younger audience and a very annoying way to manipulate the viewer.

If Uther had been decribed this way from the beginning, okay... I would have thought that it would have been better to give him redemption in the end because I find one-dimensional characters extremely boring and dumb, but at least I would have accepted it and wouldn't have even wasted a thought on this character. This wasn't the case. They presented us a character whose very essence was the love for his family, as evident throughout the show and in his last year of being alive at the latest when being destroyed and broken by Morgana's hatred. It started with the death of his wife and ended with the betrayal of his daughter. Then, all of a sudden, they make the viewer hate this character by suddenly presenting him as an evil and insane psycho just for the purpose of giving his son he has always loved more than anything a stronger personality, which they had missed to give him earlier. By that they made Uther's ENTIRE character a lie and and a farce. Which is the reason why I can't believe any character description anymore because they can come up with another farce and lie at any time. They did it to Morgana and to Uther. Who will be next?

It's all quantity over quality, that's all. It's such a shame and too stupid for my taste.