User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-4814726-20120619005556

In my English class, when we read legendary works like Lancelyn Green's telling of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, lots of times we try to analyze things too much. Such as the serving dwarves that randomly appeared and seemed to serve all the knights of the round table while they went on a quest. Or when Lancelot backhanded some poor guy so hard he died. Or my personal favorite scene, when Galahad is made a knight, and a random maiden nobody knows bursts into the hall, cries that Lancelot should weep and be sad because he was no longer the best knight at the round table now that Galahad was there, then runs back out crying and everyone just ignores it. So, our english teacher tells us that sometimes when reading this kind of thing, you can't analyze the details too much becuz they will never make any sense no matter how much you do.

Merlin is a family show. Meant to be somewhat understandable to people of al ages, namely kids. Who have a very blac and white version of good and evil. For them, Morgana was good at first, now she is bad becuz Merlin is against her. For us older folk, we like to fill in the gaps with our imagination, and there's no problem with that, but with Morgana you cannot overanalyze her too much. I like to think of her as a brainwashed psychopath, and so there redemption may come for her if she can be de-brainwashed. But the thing with redemption, is that in real life, you have to know that you need redeeming before you can redeem yourself. Morgana thinks she is totally in the right, and that's because she's been brainwashed by Morgause. It is a vicious circle. Arthur sees Morgana having magic and turning bad, so he hates magic all the more. Morgana sees Arthur continue to persecute magic, so she hates him all the more.

So, I don't quite believe that Morgana is a psychopath in the full literal sense of the word, becuz as a kids show, it can't fathom a good person turning into a full-out psychopath. So if redemption does come for Morgana, then she can't have been one in the first place.