Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Five/@comment-5102537-20140322115119/@comment-5772693-20140329014858

I did like this episode, although (as usual) it gave me a few questions. The main one being that if it is so easy for Morgana to take over other kingdoms, why doesn't she just take over all the main kingdoms surrounding Camelot and then use those armies to destroy Arthur? It certainly seemed like she was capable of doing so.

I mean, Merlin/Emrys wouldn't care or, possibly, even notice until she was done with that and moving against Arthur. It seemed like the only obstacle to world domination for Morgana at this point was Merlin. And Merlin was only a threat because of his obsession with Camelot and Arthur. If she left them alone she would have been golden.

Yes, I get that she didn't know that Merlin was Emrys, but she didn't notice that all of her plans that had nothing to do with Camelot worked, and the ones that included harming Arthur failed? The only explanation I can think of for it, is that Morgana was never all that power hungry.

She was simply petty and spiteful, not to say that she didn't have her good points, but still. Taking over Camelot had nothing to do with a true desire to rule over anything. Despite what people like to say, she also was never much of a political activist. It was all revenge and possibly taking back a bit of her lavish lifestyle. I still like her character a lot, but she was not a very nice person, and definitely had some flaws.

Also, why didn't she just kill Arthur and Gwen in their sleep? I mean she was already in the castle, in disguise, and she is the master of off-screen teleportation, so it's not like she would have had any trouble getting out of the castle if she had too.

I know she needed that other dudes army if she wanted to take and keep Camelot, but couldn't she have made some other deal with that guy, other than giving him Arthur? Or gotten a different army, she's never had trouble getting an army before. In fact just a few episodes after this, doesn't she have an army 5 times the size of Camelot's?

As for Mithian, I like her, I always thought she was an interesting character. I liked her better in season four though, simply because of the situation. I didn't really like seeing her all weak and helpless. I mean she totally had a good reason, and I don't see what else she could have done, but still.