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I think that forcing his entire kingdom to be his fantasy of what it should be might be seen by the writers as a highly negative action, thus Arthur's portrayal as a villain. When you have a person brainwashing their minions into eating pit viper poison you aren't surprised that they do the same sort of thing to their significant other. I have have no information about whether the writers are on board with Arthur's Bill Cosby-ish ways, but based on the assumption that they are normal people, I would say probably not.