I don't understand why every sorcerer is portrayed as a bad guy for wanting to kill Arthur and Uther. Uther is a genocidal maniac who has killed plenty of innocents, and Arthur seems to be going in the same direction. In fact, this is a perfectly good reason for Morgana to want to kill them both (even though she should be sad about it).
I don't get it either. In TSotF Arthur himself was so outraged when he learned the truth that he wanted to kill his own father, after all. It's not as if canon never acknowledges that what Uther did and does is terrible. But at the same time sorcerers somehow still are always the worse villains, never mind how much justification they have for their actions. Except of course for Merlin, who completely denied himself for Arthur's sake in TDotF, starting to compromise himself much like Gaius did. Which isn't really acknowledged either. This show makes my brain hurt.
I'm not so sure they won't kill Uther, though. I think Arthur has been slowly prepared to become king ever since he had to take over when Uther was unconscious in the first two episodes, and there has been entirely too much talk about succession throughout the season, too many people counting on Uther's death. The big question of course is, what then? How is Arthur going to react to having his whole words suddenly turned over? Not just learning that Merlin had been doing magic behind his back for years, but also learning what Uther had done, that Merlin had known and lied to him about that, that everyone lied to him about Morgana and let her deceive him... It should be epic, but somehow, with the way thing have been going recently, I don't trust the show to handle this well... If they're going there at all.
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I don't understand why every sorcerer is portrayed as a bad guy for wanting to kill Arthur and Uther. Uther is a genocidal maniac who has killed plenty of innocents, and Arthur seems to be going in the same direction. In fact, this is a perfectly good reason for Morgana to want to kill them both (even though she should be sad about it).
I don't get it either. In TSotF Arthur himself was so outraged when he learned the truth that he wanted to kill his own father, after all. It's not as if canon never acknowledges that what Uther did and does is terrible. But at the same time sorcerers somehow still are always the worse villains, never mind how much justification they have for their actions. Except of course for Merlin, who completely denied himself for Arthur's sake in TDotF, starting to compromise himself much like Gaius did. Which isn't really acknowledged either. This show makes my brain hurt.
I'm not so sure they won't kill Uther, though. I think Arthur has been slowly prepared to become king ever since he had to take over when Uther was unconscious in the first two episodes, and there has been entirely too much talk about succession throughout the season, too many people counting on Uther's death. The big question of course is, what then? How is Arthur going to react to having his whole words suddenly turned over? Not just learning that Merlin had been doing magic behind his back for years, but also learning what Uther had done, that Merlin had known and lied to him about that, that everyone lied to him about Morgana and let her deceive him... It should be epic, but somehow, with the way thing have been going recently, I don't trust the show to handle this well... If they're going there at all.