Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4623180-20120919141837/@comment-5102537-20120920105014

Great question which has bothered me ever since "The Nightmare Begins".

Yes, Morgana is the villain of the show but I would have preferred a more believable villain or Morgana as an opponent but not as a mere villain. It worked well with Uther before Morgana got crazy and we saw Merlin and others deal with a conflicted and dangerous character that was not evil but did questionable things and brought up a lot of tension and conflict. It worked much better that way and I wish Morgana was more like this instead of being the caricature of herself and a cartoon villain.

That is why I think if Merlin had told her about his magic, things would have gone differently. Morgana is supposed to have changed because she felt alone and scared. Actually I have never believed that because when she met the druids, she was treated well and kindly and she learnt of her own nature in a very soft way, supported and accepted by those of her kind. This alone should have cured her from her self-hatred once and for all. Nevertheless, within Camelot she felt alone and threatened because she had nobody she could trust and turn to with her powers. There were several attempts of hers to get help from Gaius because she obviously trusted him but Gaius pushed her away and made her think she was just halucinating. I would imagine that this increased her distrust of everyone and also herself because she must have felt like being captured in a nightmare where nothing works the way it should but in which everthing is turned upside down.

Alright, I get it that this contributed to her change (although her change was done much too quickly, totally exeggerated and not believable). So I think if she had Merlin as a confidant and true friend, she indeed wouldn't have felt so alone and like a freak within Camelot. Merlin and Gaius could have taught her to use her powers for better purposes than just killing others. Given that they are all just human, there is always a way to cure a troubled mind and to have influence on someone who is emotionally torn apart. Merlin and Gaius could have convinced her that even Uther was capable of changing and not a monster but that there were reasons for his actions and that he could as well have a change of heart one way or the other, especially when his own child he loves so much has magical powers. Let's face it, no one really bothered helping either Morgana or Uther dealing with what slowly destroyed them. Together, Merlin and Morgana (and Gaius) could have taken care of some things in Camelot regarding helping sorceres, helping Arthur to fulfill his future and even helping Uther to finally sort of getting over what made him hating magic so much. But this is just wishful thinking because -

- on the other hand, Morgana has always been a quite unpredictable and determined person who stopped at almost nothing when she thought she can let her emotions get the best of her (first time we saw that was in To Kill the King). A lot of things depend on her personal emotions and on her opinion only, so it would have been risky indeed to let her know about Merlin's powers for if she knew, Merlin's advantage over her would have been gone. However, the fact that Merlin, Gaius and Kilgharrah gave up on her before even trying, they prejudged her and eliminated their own take on the game.

I doubt that she would have told Uther because she didn't even tell him that Merlin tried to poisen her but blackmailed him and used her knowledge to control Merlin.

I wish Uther had found out earlier and not the way he did because I wanted to know how he would react without such a big betrayal that broke him completely. Same with Merlin's powers. There could have been so many great stories about this all, shame they eliminated it and rushed through complete other things instead.