Arthur: You had Gaius drug me! I was meant to fight him.

Uther: No, you weren’t.

Arthur: But the knights code…

Uther: Be damned. I believed you would die and that I was a risk that I could not take. You´re too precious to me, you mean more to me than anything I know, more than this entire kingdom and certainly more than my own life.

Arthur: I… always thought that…

Uther: What?

Arthur: Was that… I was a big disappointment to you!

Uther: Well, then is my fault and not yours. You’re my only son. And I wouldn’t wish for another.

Merlin 1x09

Today when I saw this, the only thing I thought was "I wished my father would tell me things like this." But to him I'm the least important thing in his life. This is not my opinion, he said it, not in words but in actions. If I was important to him he wouldn't do things like the ones he done to me.