User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-5102537-20120618203653

Morganaforever, I wish I could agree with you on this and not annoy you with my criticism since you like Morgana so much. I hope you don't take it personally, it's only about the character. And as I wrote above, you always give so many interesting subjects to talk about :-) Actually, I think that some discussions are even deeper and more interesting than most of the newer epsiodes.

Anyway, psychopaths usually have great abilites to pretend to be social and charming. It's one of their remarkable gifts to manipulate others. They can act social but they don't feel it, and when they feel it occasionally, they change their mind to the exact opposite the moment something does not go as planned or when they get angry. And generally it doesn't take much to make them angry.

They also can "like" something about someone, like how someone or something looks, a special talent or ability. But they don't feel connected in a way a normal person does. They can indeed appreciate something but it doesn't stop them from destroying it anyways. That is what Morgana did with Lancelot. She wasn't really sad but regretted to destroy someone so capable. He was just a tool she used, and she had to destroy one of her (for the moment) favourite toys. She didn't feel for him, otherwise she wouldn't have done it. Same when she felt "Uther's pain". It was a very brief moment that passed very quickly and she didn't waste a further though on it or on her father at all. Moreover, we don't know if she regretted it or if she literally felt his pain since she has magic and is a seer. That doesn't mean that she felt any kind of remorse or compassion but in my opinion nothing but astonishment and distubance. Of course, who wouldn't be surprised when feeling other people's pain.

Morgana couldn't have killed Annis because if she had done it, she would have been killed on the spot. Let alone that she doesn't know if Annis could be of use in the future. She also seemed to be surprised and confused by what Annis told her (by the way, I felt the same - I was also surprised to hear such a rubbish, but that's another subject again.. ;-) ). She tried to kill Arthur, Gwen and Gaius indeed, and in regard to Gwen, in a very sadistical way. The fact that she relies on her plans is a big flaw on the writer's side, in my opinion. It's just to expand the story about her attempts to destroy her "enemies" and Camelot. On the other hand, psychopaths can enjoy killing others themselves or they can enjoy seeing their plans working, it depends on what they prefer. And she does enjoy the misery and torment of others, wether she gains something from it or not. Most of all she enjoys to feel power over others and to scare people because that's her only way to communicate and to connect.

None of her actions are sane. Some may be calculating and her plans seem to be logical on the first sight - which is another trait of psychopaths, they are great in calculating and making plans, some are even geniuses - but it is not sane, on the contrary. Their calculations and plans serve cruel and sick purposes and they use the trust and/or weaknesses of others to use them against them and to destroy. They do the quite opposite of what a normal socially sane person would do.

Morgana is an example par exellence for a psychopath in everything she does.

I can only think of redemption and a return to her former personality if she was (hopefully) either enchanted or posessed. Otherwise she simply got insane.