User blog comment:Fimber/Your views on Morgana before she "changed"?/@comment-4814726-20120626190259

Interesting subject. I also loved Morgana b4 s3, she was just and she always wanted to stand up for what was right.

In To Kill The King, I believe she truly wanted to help Tom. He was her best friend's father, and she saw him as an innocent man just trying to give a better life to his family. She talked to Uther b4, and she realized that he wasn't going to let Tom go, so she decided to take action and get Tom free. The idea that she intentionally did that to have a reason to be mad at Uther is ludicrous. First of all, she had plenty of reasons to be mad at him w/out tom dying in my opinion. And second, getting someone to kill someone else so you could be mad at someone is silly. I mean, is that something you would do in her position? She's not crazy or dumb, (b4 s3), it's just not logical.

As for manipulating others, that's not always a bad quality in my opinion. My favorite heroine is Lyra Silvertongue from His Dark Materials, and she lied all the time in order to save the day not to mention practically the whole world. Sometimes manipulating people is necessary to reach a goal. I will definitly concede that the goal in this instance wasn't honorable since she was trying to kill Uther tho.

I see Morgana's reasons perfectly tho. Uther is a tyrant. He probably thinks the end justifies the means but we all know that both the means and the ends are not good at all. He killed thousands of people. HE KILLED CHILDREN. He lied and manipulated and killed and he was never satisfied becuz he could not end his grief or guilt. In the tears of uther pendragon when he saw that little boy he went to try and strangle him. If you saw a person you killed and felt guilty about would you try to kill them again? Uther Pendragon is just not of stable mind.

The only problem I see with Morgana here is how easily convinced she was by Tauren. He obviously didn't care about Tom's welfare in the first place otherwise he would have at least gone to a blacksmith who didn't live in Camelot. Why risk it if he didn't want anyone to be hurt? I don't think she should have gone in for the kill immediately either, but in the end she didn't. She saw Uther was not as bad as she had believed when he killed Gwen's father, so she saved him from the assassins. Therefore, like Merlin and Gwen, she proved herself not as bad as Uther by letting him die and instead saved him. At least for the time being. And in the very next episode she did her best to keep Arthur from dying. She was scared out of her mind for her family's health.