User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why NOT to hate on Morgana/@comment-85.237.212.236-20121013125439/@comment-4650675-20121015110159

Hey Fimber, no, I don't think the description of a sociopath applies to Morgana since season 3.


 * Callous unconcern for the feelings of others: Morgana is concerned for other's feelings. In fact, she even uses her enemies' feelings againist them, like what he did with Arthur, Gwen, Uther e.t.c. She was also concerned to know about what Mordred met on his journey, and reassured him that everything would change once the Old Religion returned. She also called Aithusa to reassure her that everything would be alright. This description does not suit Morgana at all.
 * Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations: Of course, since she would be executed if she took responsibility of her crimes-it's what villains do, but not all of them are sociopaths. Uther also took no responsibility for killing so many magical people, did he?
 * Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, though having no difficulty in establishing them: What are you talking about? She was with Morgause since season 2 until season 4, then she died! Agravaine died, Helios died, Ruadan died. Just because all her allies die does not mean she cannot maintain relationships. In addition sociopaths are usually "created" from a traumatic experience in childhood, and Morgana, from an early age until her early 20s, had a lot of longtime friends.
 * Very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence. Again, this alone is the definition of a short-tempered person, not a sociopath. One must gather all those characteristics to be one.
 * Incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, particularly punishment. Untrue. She feels both guilt, in situations stated above, and learns from her mistakes. Her second attack on Camelot was more mature than her first one. And don't tell me that she still lost Camelot again, meaning that she did not learn, because that's not true. Would an ordinary human be able to imagine that his nemesis had planted a source on enchantment under his bed to prevent him from using magic and making him lose the battle? No. If she began checking under beds, then she would be overly self-conscious, wouldn't she?
 * Markedly prone to blame others or to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior that has brought the person into conflict with society. Untrue. I don't remember her ever saying any of your quotes. On the other hand, she apologised to Gwen when she had to fight her, meaning she takes responsibility.

She has 2/6, so sociopath test fails. In addition, I researched the issue a bit as well, and sociopaths are almost always born in their childhood years, because of a traumatic experience. Morgana was around her 20s when Morgause took her. And Merlin's poisoning was not a traumatic enough experience to make her that. It's not like -bam!- Merlin poisoned me, let me out there to destroy anything! Sociopathy is not like that. Except if Morgause enchanted her with a sociopathy spelll...still, gathering only a 2/6 does NOT make her a sociopath, in fact, I know perfectly normal people that even gather 4. All of them are probably possessed by sociopaths.

Yeah, I saw the constant smirks. They were added in the effort of making a cliche villain, who smirks about anything bad he/she does. Merlin is mainly a show watched by people of young age, and kids do not understand complex characters. That's why smirking = evil, for Merlin's standards. Still, there were cases she did not, like when she sent Lancelot to have Gwen betray Arthur, or when her plans succeed. She is satisfied when she sets them, but when they come to fruition (like killing Uther) she is not happy, and this is because she still has feelings for her former friends, but is unable to see them, like she was unable to know that she would be sad after resurrecting Lancelot.

Correction. At the end of season 2, Morgana agreed to have ONLY Uther killed, and that's why Morgause had everyone else in Camelot fall asleep.

I also certainly saw no desperation in the previous two episodes. I am sure no one else did. She was happy to see Mordred was alright, and her bond with him did not change throughout the years-at least from her point of view. He was already her ally(from what she knew) so saying she was desperate to make him an ally is definitely untrue. Same for Aithusa, she had her obedience, so how was she desperate to gain her support?

All in all, I don't think we will ever agree on this character! And that's weird, because we both watch the same show!