Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130504114838/@comment-5674726-20130507001815

''The reason why I'm not sure if her feelings were really selfless is the fact that killing her "guardian" was quite exaggerated, plus the fact that she manipulated him in regard to Gorlois' when she blamed him for Gorlois' death. To me it was totally obvious that she didn't mean what she said because

a) Uther was surprised and shocked and obviously had heard this accusation for the very first time,''

I don't know about it being the first time. I'd say that it's an accusation she made before; she's not the one to voice the idea that Uther was responsible for Gorlois' death, Uther denies responsibility before she says anything, which would suggest that she blamed him before since it'd be odd for him to leap to that otherwise. She was only ten when she lost Gorlois and Uther said that she fought him from the beginning. I could see little Morgana grieving and lashing out at her new guardian, blaming him for her father's death, perhaps based on scattered bits of gossip she overheard.

Perhaps Uther hoped that she had come to understand that he wasn't to blame for Gorlois' death, and was shocked that, a decade later, she still blamed him.