User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why NOT to hate on Morgana/@comment-62.216.206.40-20170501024910/@comment-37001937-20190118062317

Arthur was guilty of inaction. I partially blame this on the writers making Gaius and Merlin the keepers of secrets, and the impetus for many storylines for too long. Half of season 4 and all of season 5 was about Merlin literally going against Arthur's orders behind his back, and hence endangering the life of the man he was supposed to protect, lives of many knights, as well as the people of Camelot.

However Morgana wasn't better than this. She was exactly like Uther; this to her own clueless dismay. She tried to overthrow a regime that was killing innocent people by also killing innocent people herself. Do fans choose to forget the people she killed to force the knights to be loyal to her? Her smug dismissal of Merlin's pleading that people were dying during the war against the undead army in "The Tears of Uther Pendragon?" The gladiator matches she held just the purpose of entertaining the Southrons? Her torture of Alator and also killing him by breaking his neck? Trapping Finna and forcing her to commit suicide to avoid betraying Emrys' identity? Killing the men who brought the news that Arthur was still alive? Using Ruadan and Sefa as pawns? Killing and enslaving people to find the key to Arthur's bane?

Her killing of magic users is unjustifiable, and also inexplicable because it was supposed to be what set her apart from Uther's tyranny.