User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Morgana Is An Ungrateful Snot/@comment-5253758-20121125220307/@comment-5659316-20121126005820

thanks for the comment.

First off, Morgana's reaction, in spite of everything, has been? a bit exaggerated/over-the-top. Yes, what Uther did, denying her and making her feel alone, was terrible, but compared to how he treated OTHER PEOPLE, what she got wasn't even that bad. Actually, I understand Morgana's character better than you might think; I have serious? issues with my biological dad, who I feel sort of "denied" me just as bad as Uther did Morgana. Given, he never tried to hide the fact that I was his daughter, but there WERE times when I've actually walked up to people and said, "I'm his daughter," only to have them, all wide-eyed, go, "He never mentioned a daughter." AND he chose to be a father to a boy who wasn't even his over being a good parent to me. So I know how Morgana probably feels? in comparison to Arthur. Nothwithstanding, like I mentioned in the? post, up till now everything she's done to Merlin has been because he blundered into her plans or accidentally fell into her lap and can be, to some extent, justified. The Hollow Queen marks a change in that. She lured him into a trap so that she? could make him die slowly and painfully for no reason except that he "meddles in her plans too often". ? ?

Yes, Merlin can be cold (as he was in regards to Mordred in The Disir), BUT he's not sadistic. He wouldn't have tried to find the worst, slowest possible way for Mordred to die. Nor would he have lured him off from the other knights, preying on his better nature, just to shove the boy off a cliff, even if it meant saving Arthur instanteously. Morgana got no instant results from offing Merlin in a slow painful way, it didn't bring her Camelot, but she was happy because she? was putting him through a lot of suffering.?

Also, Merlin was CRYING when he poisoned Morgana. You have to put into perspective how young he was (it was only in season 2!? He's come a long way since then). Not to mention, he didn't KNOW at that point that she wasn't allied with Morgause willingly, in spite of his wanting to save her, he? had a LOT of pressure on him. Even taking out the magic/betrayal element, Morgana would have seen he was getting sick (about to fall asleep like everyone else in Camelot), that he was laboring for breath... He had to make a choice.? If he had decided to? talk to Morgana about her being the source of the enchantment and she? denied it, even just? out of fear, or maybe she just plain wouldn't have believed it,? he would NO LONGER have a chance to save Camelot. That doesn't work, she was sure as heck not going to drink the poison THEN, giving him the only leverage on Morgause to make her stop the knights he could have possibly had, and Arthur would have died.? Also Morgause? wasn't going to let Morgana die. I think Merlin knew (or at least strongly HOPED) this. Whereas every time Morgana has tried to kill Merlin, she's? totally expected his death with no way out of it.

It was YEARS ago by this point in the show. If Morgana, after lying and saying she forgave him, is still not over it, that's her problem. Merlin was willing to risk everything, even leaving Arthur alone with psycho/brainwashed Gwen? to help that boy's? non-existant sister. If that doesn't prove that in spite of everything he has a kind heart deep down,? little will.

Merlin has done many more kind things, overall, than Morgana. Even season 2 Morgana, who was still kind, WAS becoming slightly? more self-centered. Given, it was her fear of her magic/of being alone, but she almost placed her life above? all the people Uther was going to? murder because he thought the Druids kidnapped her. In season one,? in spite of her nightmares, which fightened her a lot, she didn't think that MUCH about herself; she was concerned for the hungry people in Camelot when Arthur killed that unicorn and unleased a curse, she helped Mordred, and she went to Merlin's village to fight.? Only? she just seemed to be more and more self-centered after? finding out she had magic.

Also, I think Merlin has had MANY more chances to kill Morgana even than the show reveals. He's still more powerful than she is, even though she's becoming stronger in magic. I think if he really, really wanted to, he could have offed her by now. ? ? ? ?

Even if you ignore all that, just look at the difference between how Merlin and Morgana treated a rendered helpless Uther. When he went crazy from the mandrake root, Morgana was all for giving him extra torment when no one was looking and she was sure he couldn't see her. Merlin, who was treated like dirt by Uther plenty of times, on the other hand, was PUTTING BLANKETS ON HIM GENTLY!

Till now, I thought it was little phase, that Morgana was just bitter because of Uther. But Uther's dead now, Arthur is the one she's after, and she's trying to make MERLIN suffer??? Aside from poisoning her that one time, not even entirely willingly, he has never done anything to her, really. AND he doesn't hate magic. She knows he helps Druids. That's just petty and cruel. Merlin wouldn't have done that to her. Not even for the greater good. That's why he's too good for her.