Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Four/@comment-5102537-20131229110740/@comment-5102537-20140112134903

ReganX wrote:

I'd say that, once she was told that he was her doom, she took the view that anybody who wasn't with her was her enemy. I doubt that she'd have considered that there could ever be a valid reason for a sorcerer to support Arthur, as I don't think that she believed that he would ever change the laws against magic - and, in fairness, she was right about that.

Yes, either that or she didn't care about her sense of justice but only about power. If she was supposed to just not believe that the law will ever be changed and/or that anyone who wasn't with her was her enemy, she should at least have wondered about Emrys and Alator helping Arthur nevertheless. A scene in which she wonders about that but maybe believes that Emrys wants the power that she gains himself and therefore works against her would have provided some clarification.

The way it was done presents her as a rather dim character who doesn't even think about the reasons for her fellow sorcerers to help Arthur. Every person who encounters opponents or enemies wants to know why and what their motives are in order to understand what's going on. But then, not even Arthur wondererd what had gotten into Morgana, not at really at least. He didn't really try to understand what drove her and what might have happened during the year she went missing. All characters on "Merlin" ignored other people's motives and motivations and just accepted even the weirdest actions and behaviour just so without questioning it.

Gaius, Merlin, Gwen and Arthur should have wondered what turned Morgana all of a sudden. Morgana should have wondererd why a powerful High Priest, Alator, who was willing to torture a fellow magic-user, helped Emrys and turned against Morgana. She should have wondered why such a powerful sorcerer like Emrys protects Arthur and Camelot when his fate depends on the legalisation of magic, too.

As for Morgana not believing that Arthur will ever change the law. Aside from the fact that she had done everything in her powers to cement Arthur's distrust towards magic by killing Uther with magic and by constantly abusing her powers, she could have considered the possibility that Emrys has a plan to bring about a change. Had she ever tried to reach Arthur and to change his opinion, I would understand why she later gave up trying. The point is, she never did after they had fought side by side for those who had used magic or were accused to have used magic. Instead she proved to Arthur (and Uther and everyone else as well) that magic was "evil" by constantly causing mayhem and misery and bringing terror to Camelot. If she didn't believe that Arthur would ever change the law, she should have realised that she was main reason for it.