Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130816211001/@comment-5102537-20130819113306

I'm not even sure if they had ever intended to have Morgana being enchanted by Morgause. As you said, Merlin has never given the benefit of a doubt when she returned but funnily simply believed that she has become a mass-murdering mad woman just so. I have always wondered why he never ever talked to Gaius about it and wondered what has happened to her. He saw her trying to kill Uther earlier already and he accepted Kilgharrah's word that she was the reason for the disease when entire Camelot fell asleep, but he never wondered why. Merlin wasn't ten years old but an adult, so he should have known that there is a reason for everything, aside from a blurry prophecy. If someone told me that a friend of mine will become or has become evil all of a sudden because the prophecy says so, I would want to know why. Cause and effect.

He never really said that Uther made her this way, which was the only intelligent thing he had ever done in regard to Morgana's new evilness. So he obviously didn't believe that it was Uther's fault alone. Why the heck did he never wonder about the missing year?

Since the audience is supposed to see the characters also through the eyes of other characters, it seems that Merlin accepting that Morgana has turned to evil was supposed to show us that there is no real reason but that she simply was an evil witch.

It would have helped if Merlin had at least assumed that magic corrupted Morgana. When we're taking a look at the nazis in the second World War, we can see that especially those who never really had a say in anything, who were ordinary, maybe weak and scared, victims of mightier people, suddenly turned mean, ruthless and sadistical the moment they had power over others which was given to them by the nazis. They were the ones who held the fate of others in their hands all of a sudden and they weren't "weak" and victims anymore but had the opportunity and also the obligation to opress and harm others.

A similar thing might have happened to Morgana when she suddenly was in a more powerful position and could turn the tables. This would have been believable if she had really been opressed and tormented by others and if she had always been a victim of the powers of others. Instead she was pampered and loved, respected and appreciated. Only her fears when she saw her powers growing and Uther being a strict guardian in season one wasn't enough to change her into a hatred-filled killer machine.

So in the end, Merlin should have wondered if she had been enchanted or brainwashed up to an extent that defied her control.

Anyway, if Morgana had seen Merlin using magic in the beginning already, I'd like to know how things would have turned out, had she become Merlin's ally.