Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24691863-20140413080351/@comment-24785400-20140429001649

Ah, Anglophile, I think you've just explained why I felt such a disconnect between what I was being presented with, and what I was thinking (and possibly why I felt the writers were trying to manipulate me at the end)  I think this quote (from TWP) sums it up too.

The writers clearly couldn't be arsed to think about the world they created except on the most superficial level, and so the only solution they could find for having accidentally created a show where the heroes were the supporters and rulers of a genocidal regime was to pay cursory lip-service to how it was maybe a little bit harsh and such a shame that things were like that and maybe they'll be better someday, while at the same time making every magic user bar Merlin as crazy and idiotic and evil as possible in the hope of burying the deeper issues at hand.

I think its interesting that if this show was about Morgana's journey, then we would see somebody who had good intentions but lost their way or was devoured by black magic. (if it was her story, then she would have needed somebody to come and redeem her)  I mean, she was drugged for years by Giaus, lied to about her parentage, thought for much of the time she was going crazy, tricked, poisoned and then taken away for year for god knows what, then captured and chained up for two years with a distressed baby dragon. (I like you, have come to see her as an infinitely more interesting character than Merlin or Arthur. She's not a hero, but she could have been)  or alternatively if we where following Kara's story (who saw herself as a real freedom fighter), then she would be a hero AND a martyr as she fought and  died for her beliefs.

'' We're supposed to see Arthur and Merlin as the heroes, and Uther and Morgana as the villains... but it's not so black and white! All of the characters on this show subscribe to a very grey morality ''

I agree, and just want to add, that the writers put forth these grey morals, but then tried to simplify it into black and white.