User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on "Morgana's Death"/@comment-5591912-20121209203101/@comment-5102537-20121209204239

I'm sad that the show presented the mass murderer Morgana to some fans exactly that way, as a victim who actually is only misguided but not so bad anyway, driven insane by someone else who actually didn't drive her insane.

Chris, since I can't comment on your blog but only reply to other comments, this is my response to your blog:

Great blog post, Chris. If it wasn't for the ethical aspects you mentioned, I wouldn't bother to reply since I haven't watched any epsiode after "The Disir" (actually I watched the first three episodes and then The Disir) and won't watch any further epsiode. However, I agree with you on the ethical and moral aspects you brought up.

AND... I would totally agree with you... (and I actually do), if it wasn't for the very fact that in case Morgana survives and becomes "good" again, it would not only show that no matter what she did, she deserved to live and deserved redemption whereas other characters who were not as evil as she is don't. It would also contradict Julian Murphy's as well as Bradley James' sudden statements that it's always dangerous to make villains likable and that the truth of evil or supposedly evil characters should not be sentimentalized.

I couldn't care less about the end of the show since I have grown to dislike it tremendously, and I couldn't care less about Morgana's fate as a character since the show runners ruined her completely. However, I'm totally with you that especially a family show should not give the example of punishing bad people with death, not to mention that I'm strictly against death penalty at all. So you're right on one hand and Morgana and everyone else should survive. On the other hand, I'm quite annoyed and disappointed that the producers think that Uther, who is directly connected to Morgana, supposedly deserved to die and to suffer when, if so, Morgana does not.

You see my dilemma? I want, for the sake of ethics and morality, Morgana to survive and to redeem but I also don't want the show to demonstrate to the audience, especially the younger ones, that Morgana was actually only a victim and deserved to survive while Uther deserved to die.

You are right with everything you wrote here and hope for you and for everyone else that Morgana will turn again and survive. But I wish they would also give Uther redemption to make clear that Morgana was NOT a victim and that Uther was not evil. I know they won't. And I suppose you have to prepare for the worst since "making villains likable is dangerous" in their mind...

In case she survives, the only character who had to pay for his sins would be Uther, and this would be hypocrisy at its best. So, that's another reason why I don't watch this joke of a once so great show anymore - I don't want her to die, I don't actually care and at the same time I don't want to the audience to be fooled so tremendously into thinking that the only bad person was Uther and that he deserved to die. So either way, whatever ending they are going to show, it won't be a satisfying one.