Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130316141226/@comment-5674726-20130325002536

''And she repeated it when she took care of Uther and told Gaius as well as Arthur that she wasn't doing it for Uther but for Arthur. A lot of fans think that this was totally understandable and alright, but they obviously miss the fact that actually Arthur should defend his father instead of tolerating - even agreeing with - insulting his own father.''

It was understandable that Guinevere wouldn't want to take care of Uther for Uther's sake but I'd say that that showed why she shouldn't have been the person taking care of him. In the extremely unlikely event that nobody could be found who thought well of Uther and who would have wanted to care for him for his own sake, somebody with a neutral opinion of him should have been found. Guinevere was a very poor choice because, not only did she make no bones about not caring about Uther, her presence can't have been without pain for him. Given that his heart was broken over what happened with Morgana, it was cruel to make Guinevere his caregiver when she was bound to serve as a constant reminder of his estranged daughter.

At best, it was thoughtless of Arthur to make Guinevere Uther's carer. At worst, he put his desire to keep Guinevere employed in the castle after Morgana left ahead of the welfare of his emotionally shattered father.