Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130810111259/@comment-10341849-20130814111809

Fimber wrote:

So again: why did Morgana always claim that Uther didn't love her? I never understood why Morgana returned being so hateful and such a killer machine without any explanation. Something must have happened during the year with Morgause, alas they never ever told us or maybe didn't even gave it a second thought. It was total rubbish to blame Uther for everything because when Morgana almost died at the end of season two, Uther was uncounscious the whole time and didn't do anything to her, unlike Merlin who tried to kill her for good reasons. But even this wasn't reason enough for her to suddenly really hate everyone, including her close friends.

I also never understood why she suddenly took so much pleasure in torturing Uther (and later in torturing others as well). Someone who loves to see the one who loves her and almost sacrificed everything for her suffer so much can only be suffering from a serious mental disease. It's sadistical and the actions of a psychopath. It's one thing to hate someone and to wish to get rid of them, but another to enjoy the total misery and suffering of the person in question.

There must have been other reasons for Morgana to suddenly hate him and her friends so tremendously. It would have been a good idea if they had explained her change by a spell that Morgause used on her, maybe similar to Gwen when she was enchanted in season five. Gwen didn't care about how much Arthur and everyone else loved her during her enchantment, and it was the same with Morgana. It wasn't love that she wanted but she only followed her ridiculous hatred and her hunger for power. This wasn't normal at all and it couldn't be explained at all.

Shame that with season three they changed Morgana into a psychopath like they changed Uther into a psychopath in season five.

Maybe Morgana always thought that what Uther did always because of guilt. Uther was the one who made Gorlois died and made her fatherless. That was always what Uther said whenever he explained why he was so overprotective about her and wanted the best for her. And after Morgana found out that she was his daughter, she felt betrayed and lied to. Felt rejected that her own father didn't want to acknowledger her in the first place.

Somehow I can imagine how she felt. I lost your father at a very young age due to some duty a king asked my father to do. I would felt resentful to the king no matter how kind he was to me after that, no matter how lovingly he became to me, no matter how luxurious my life after that. And staying by king's side might add a lot of resentment seeing how he ruled and made a lot people fatherless too....(the king was the cause of my father's death)..then after all the resentment, suddenly someday I knew that the king was my father after all. So, that added another resentment to the king, hell, I was the illegitimate child and no matter what, since my father IS a king, he would never allowed to claim me as his own child to safe his pride (at least he would not admit it to the public to safe his reputation and face)....

Then after becoming fatherless at one time, as an illegitimate child, I would not be loved as deep as my father's legitimate child ( in this case, Arthur). He would be the one who inherit the throne, the kingdom, and all of my father's love and hope. Arthur could receive all the glory and honor and love of all of the kingdom and everybody would rejoice and supportive about that.

How about me? Even if everybody knew that I was King's daughter, but since I am illegitimate (not my fault, but who cares), I would rejected and underestimated, and unworthy of the throne.

Would I take pleasure torturing my own father, the one who made my fake father died, and then w0uld not even want to acknowledge me to anybody because that would make him lose face and pride but always claimed that he loved me so much? Maybe......