Talk:Morgana Pendragon/@comment-2601:543:4203:F614:B86D:232F:2E30:2C86-20170927010738

I'll forever be pissed that the writers spent two seasons building up the potential for Morgana to be such a wonderfully complex anti-hero, one that helped her brother get to Albion in the end, but opted to make her a two-dimensional nemesis for Merlin in the last three seasons because there needed to be a cheesy enemy that lasted longer than the span of one season, let alone one episode. I know there was that whole prophecy about her becoming evil, but c'mon. She deserved better, as did Mordred. Using a girl, Kara in Mordred's instance, for the sole reason of a male character's development, especially when there are so very few positive female roles in a show, is so problematic. And Merlin comes in with all that "duty" and "destiny" nonsense, like going from "damn, your the only other person in Camelot that doesn't think that magic is evil" to "get out of the way because Arthur might do some good stuff sometime soon, because there is a chance, or at least a dragon told me, that Arthur might not kill innocent people like his father did". The show had some misogynistic themes, and it got tough to watch, especially the last three seasons. At least Merlin's character flaw was acknowledged with that "Your determination to see goodness in others will be your undoing." because that can totally be applied to Arthur. It's been almost five years, and I'm still mad lol