User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-7285162-20130415005522/@comment-5102537-20130416145801

Hi again Ambrosius and thanks for your comment :)

I suppose you mean it the other way around? :

"You see, Uther in the Spirit World is *the* Uther we know, and his first concern is for Arthur whom he loves forevemore. But apparently being in the world of the living makes someone lose his composure and behave like crazy, and that's just it. "

I would holeheartedly agree with you if the episode/show had mentioned or hinted this anywhere just once. Instead Merlin said at the end of the episode that all what Uther did, he did it for Camelot, which shows that nobody doubted whatsoever that the spirit of Uther was exactly the Uther they had always known.

Gaius could have stated that the spirit behaves unlike Uther because of the Spirit World or the violent death or whatever, but he didn't. Not to mention that Balinor returned as a friendly spirit, so spirits don't necessarily lose their personality in death.

Last but not least, the producers as well as Bradley James stated that they didn't want to sentimentalise Uther and that it is "always dangerous to make a villain likable". The producers said that Uther had always been that way, making clear that people only thought he wasn't so bad only because he died. Needless to mention that this isn't true at all  because they showed us a multidimensional and also likable Uther for more than three seasons but only changed it subsequently in order to show differences between Arthur and Uther because they had made Uther being the one who built Camelot and who managed to keep peace for more than twenty years. Moreover, Arthur persecuted sorcerers after his father's death and people began to wonder what the big difference between father and son is. So instead of showing an Arthur who established something great on his own they simply changed Uther into an evil psycho.

The episode didn't move me at all, it simply annoyed me because it actually insulted my intelligence as a viewer. The only brilliant thing in it was, as usual, the great performances of all actors.