User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why NOT to hate on Morgana/@comment-85.237.212.236-20121013125439

Okay, I wasn't so sure if it I should respond to your blog or not, because, as you already know Chris, I don't share your point of view at all. Since you put so much effort in your blog and since I know that it's always unpleasant if someone goes against the favourite character, I actually didn't want to post a reply.

On the other hand, I have been asking you for so long to finally put up your promised blog :-D .... Moreover, I found some things that are not quite true. No offence, Chris, you did a great job!

The first thing I'd like to refer is what you wrote about Morgana thinking that she grew up with the murderer of her "father" (Gorlois). think it was totally clear that blaming Uther for Gorlois' death was nothing but manipulation. It was obvious by the look on her face and what she tried when she finally got Uther where she wanted him to be. She addressed his conscience but she clearly didn't really think that he murdered Gorlois. f she had thought that, she would have told it Uther much sooner. She didn't (which was evident when this was the first time that Uther had heard about it) and she also never said it again. She used this weak spot in order to manipulate Uther so that he feels for her and gets right into her trap, ready to be killed by Tauren with whom Morgana conspired.

The next thing is what you wrote about Merlin not acknowledging that Morgana had magic. He did after he hesitated and then sent her to the druid camp. However, I agree that Merlin and Gaius had better helped her instead of leaving her alone.

Then, when you wrote that Morgana remembered her father (Uther) and how things could have been different if he had acknowledged her is only wishful thinking, I'm afraid. There was no hint whatsoever that he remembered him and regretted what had happened at all. Feeling his pain was merely disturbing but she surely didn't feel any remorse at all. She never ever referred to it again and she didnt change just a bit. Where exactly did you see that she regretted that he didn't acknowledge her and that things could have been different? She never wanted things to be different between her and Uther but she always desperately clinged to her hate for him, no matter what he tried.

It's also not true that Uther and Morgana officially were enemies when she disowned him. Morgana was Uther's enemy but not the other way around. Uther loved Morgana and never saw her as his enemy. He didn't even know that she felt that way for him.

Well, Morgana isn't a complex character at all, not anymore. She used to be in the first seasons but she meanwhile is a one-dimensional crazy villain, so simple and unreal that not even comic-strip villains could keep up with her evilness and simplicity. It's a shame that they made her this way because she had so much potential and it was totally wasted in order to present a villain that was supposed to be feared.

The fact that Uther didn't acknowledge her as his daughter didn't crumble her world, it simply contributed to her hatred she already had towards him, but not out of disappointment or sadness but only because she again tried to manipulate him so that he confesses and admits. And she did it to use it against him. After all this hate, acknowledging her could have never ever changed her mind about him. Nothing could, she was totally and completely immune towards his love for him, simply because she didn't want to be loved but desperately tried to hold on to her hate in her delusional mind. If she had accepted his love, she wouldn't have had a justification for her hatred anymore and she wasn't willing to give it up. She ignored that Uther almost sacrificed his entire kingdom only for her when she went missing and she ignored that he even used magic in order to heal her. Nothing that had ever happened in Camelot could ever explain or justify why she became such an evil sociopath.

It wasn't Uther's, Merlin's, Gaius', Arthur's or Gwen's fault at all because she ignored everything that has ever been done for her, she ignored the love, respect and friendship that all of them gave to her and she never really tried to use her powers for good. The moment she learnt how to use her magical powers, she used them for evil and nothing else. She was willing to sacrifice and kill entire Camelot in the end of season two when Morgause asked if she was willing to do it, which was before she knew that Uther was her real father. At that point of time she had already been ready to even have her friends being killed, for no valid reason. She also was willing to do that when Alvarr manipulated her, so there is no sign of a conscience or sense of justice at all.

Morgana should also have known that acknowledging her as Uther's daughter would have damaged the honour of Gorlois and Vivienne great deal. It wasn't only about Uther's sin but he surely also wanted to protect the reputation of Morgana's mother and Gorlois. The fact that Morgana ignored this showed very clearly that she has no sense for the needs of others, not even for her own family but that she only thinks of herself and her own wishes, no matter what. Adultery was punishable by death and if Uther had acknowleged and admitted it, he actually would have been forced to sentence himself to death. If Morgana really thinks that Uther basically committing suicide and/or damaging the reputation of her own mother, of Gorlois and of Morgana and Arthur as well is it worth it, then it shows even more so what a self-absorbed, powerhungry and delusional person she (meanwhile) is.

Morgana also turned against Gwen even though Gwen has always been a loyal friend to her and has suffered under Uther's reign as well when he killed Gwen's father. If Morgana hadnt been so pathologically fixated on Uther and her hatred for really everyone, she would have tried to prove that magic wasn't evil and she would have sided with her friends and her half-brother, yet she even tried and tries to destroy those who would be her most valuable and most important allies.

Let's see:

Morgana was willing to sacrifice her friends and family when Alvarr and Morgause planned the downfall of Uther in season two already.

She tried to drive Uther insane with the mandrake root and enjoyed his pain and misery even though he confessed his deep fatherly love for her in front of everyone.

She tried to kill her own father several times.

She attacked Camelot, waited until it was weakened which happened ONLY BECAUSE UTHER HAD LOOKED FOR HER because he couldn't stand that something might have happened to her.

She caused a war between Camelot and Cenred's army and watched hundreds or maybe even thousands of innocent people die.

She turned thousands of Cenred's men into the living dead and killed them by that, caused another war with Camelot, had hundreds or thousands of innocent people being slaughtered by the zombie-army... men, women, children.

She deliberatedly executed innocent people only to make the knights and people of Camelot obdient and only to hurt Uther.

She wanted to burn the crops so that the people in Camelot starve.

She imprisoned her father and forced him to watch her cruelties in order to hurt and to break him whilst she ignored his devastation due to her hatred towards him and his own offer to sacrifice himself for the innocent people of Camelot, tremendously enjoying his suffering.

She released the dorocha, watched again hundreds of people die and was willing to even destroy the world of the living (?????? what sense did that make?)

She tormented and finally killed her own father after having broken him and causing him a year in hell in total misery and pain, having him ripped off of his pride, his kingdom, his self-confidence, his dignity, his control over body and mind, his hope and his will to live, only because of her hate for him, not willing to see that she was the one why Uther had the complete mental breakdown because he loved her so much.

She ripped Lancelot of off his soul and was willing to let him suffer for eternity when not giving his soul back to him (Merlin had to do it).

She caused another war on Camelot with Queen Annis, willing and ready to watch thousands of people die and to watch her half-brother die.

She tortured Merlin in order to make him kill Arthur, her own half-brother who has never ever done anything wrong to her.

She turned Gwen into a deer in order to have Arthur kill his one and only true love, hoping to break Arthur, to get rid of Gwen and to enjoy Arthur's deep misery. She didn't even do the job herself but waited for Arthur to kill his own girlfriend, the one he loves the most.

She caused another war when attacking Camelot together with Helios, trying to kill each and everyone in her way.

She tortured Gwaine, Elyan, Gaius and others for her amusement and wanted to let them starve.

I'm sure that I have forgotten about some more things.

Anyway, there is every reason to despise Morgana since she has become an insane killer and torture-loving monster out of the blue, someone who is unable to receive or to give love.

I'm sorry for that Chris, really wish they had done it differently with her character and had made her more humane instead of turning her into a psychopath or sociopath.