Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130504114838/@comment-5102537-20130508111134

50.117.80.138 wrote: Wouldn't it have been great if Gwen knew that the King was sorry for having Tom executed?

Sorry, I forgot about this. Yes, I agree. I too wonder if Morgana had ever told Gwen about it. It's not something a good friend would hold back from the one who lost a loved one because it could ease the pain at least a bit. It would have been helpful if Gwen had known that Uther had at aleast some doubts about Tom and probably did not see him as a traitor and criminal.

However, when Uther later sentenced Gwen to death because he was convinced that she used a love spell on Arthur, he blamed Tom again for conspiring with a sorcerer and Gwen disn't seem to have known about Uther's regrets (according to "To Kill the King"). So I doubt that Morgana ever told Gwen about it.

ReganX wrote:

Perhaps Uther hoped that she had come to understand that he wasn't to blame for Gorlois' death, and was shocked that, a decade later, she still blamed him. This is another possibility. Yes, maybe you're right and she had blamed him earlier when she was younger. However, according to what she said and the way she did it, it seemed like she was mentioning it for the very first time. Normally, if this was a subject they had talked about earlier, Uther probably would have said something like "I've already explained why.....blabla..." or something similar in order to give the viewers a hint that Morgana has really always blamed him for Gorlois' death. The entire conversation and Uther's reaction seemed to show that it was the first time that he had heard of it.

But even if this wasn't new to Uther but only almost forgotten, Morgana's intention was to manipulate him. She never mentioned it before (in the show) and never again afterwards, so it obviously wasn't her strong conviction that Uther let Gorlois die.

Either way, I would have liked a clarification on this. Was it only an accident or did Uther refuse to sent reinforcements so that Gorlois dies? I doubt he did but I would have liked to know for sure.