User blog comment:Fimber/Nine questions about "The Wicked Day"/@comment-4135736-20120625091758/@comment-4814726-20120626182802

I'm sorry, I have to disagree about that. Merlin didn't become cold-hearted OR selfish. He didn't LET Uther die, he tried to save him, and when it didn't work he was extremely guilty about it. And even if he was really only doing it to get Arthur to see magic as a good thing that wouldn't just be for himself. That's about one million thousand people in Albion who are seen as evil becuz of who they are, he was also doing it for them.

Merlin couldn't use magic in the first place becuz if he was caught he might be executed. Uther never saw anything good about magic even if it was doing good for the kingdom, and he killed whoever had it or was even suspected of being near it. Merlin saw this all the time and how can you blame him for not wanting to be killed by his best friend's father for healing him?

Merlin was very sad when Uther was stabbed. He didn't use magic becuz it just didn't occur to him as an option. Gaius always told him that he couldn't do it and he was't allowed becuz he would be killed for it.

When he DID try to use it to save Uther, he had to study thru all kinds of books to find the right spell. He didn't know how to heal Uther in the first place.

Merlin sees Arthur as his friend, so he would nevr do anything to really hurt him like letting his dad die or worse actually killing him. If anyone was being selfish in this episode it was Gaius. He's the one who always tells Merlin not to reveal his magic or to use it when it actually matters becuz it concerns Arthur and Morgana. But when its about saving Uther he tlls Merlin to risk his life and use magic to help him. But I'm sure that in the Wicked Day Gaius told Merlin that it was unthinkable to heal Uther becuz of how obvious it would be that magic was used.

Merlin's saved Uther's life b4. In To Kill the King. The Sorcerer's Shadow. Remedy To Cure all Ills. That didn't change in The Wicked Day, he found the healing spell to cure him and it would've worked if it hadn't been for the curse Morgana made.