User blog:It's Good to be the Queen/Morgana

There's a saying when you send someone to prison he or she can come out worse than when that person went in. Truer words cannot be said about Morgana. Two years in prison, subjected to God knows what, has turned her into a sociopath, although she was well on her way before going on lockdown. She's now Camelot's home grown terrorist.

From hints for the upcoming season, Morgana really goes of the deep end when dealing with her enemies, real or imagined. The knights have been captured, and she has Gwaine and Pervical stripped half naked for her perverted pleasure: Percival for her private gladiator games, Gwaine for boudoir antics. (I think that's why Morgana sent Eira in to seduce Gwaine, to get intel on Arthur's plans and get back at Gwaine for rejecting her.) Morgana really uped the sadist ante when she takes Gwen prisoner - having her walk bound behind her horse, driving her mad with a use of a mandrake root,  and using magic to compel her to attempt drowning herself in a lake. Bradley James (Arthur) said in an interview that Arthur reaches his breaking point with Morgana, and abusing his queen would do it.

Sick nonsense like this makes me wish there's a medieval SEAL Team 6 to deal with Morgana decisively. But I think Morgana's reign of terror 3.0 will strengthen the resolves of her victims. Arthur and Gwen will be marked by this new wave of cruelty; but instead of breaking them, as Morgana obviously hopes, it tempers them to be tough rulers when dealing with emenies of the state. The obvious example for Gwen is when she has Morgana's spy publicly executed. Arthur will ramp up the anti-magic campaign, which may have died down if Morgana wasn't blinded by hate and targeted innocents, starting with his wife. I'm hoping for the ultimate comeuppance: Mordred betrays her. A fitting end for a vicious character.