Talk:The Fires of Idirsholas/@comment-207.216.65.174-20130706213357/@comment-37017073-20190504213428

Morgana wanted Uther dead, which is completely understandable since Uther persecuted her king and Morgause was planting ideas in her mind.

I take it you didn't watch the previous episode (2x11), where Morgana allied herself against Uther with Mordred and Alvarr; remained allied with him even after finding out that they were after not just Uther, but all who served him, which included Arthur (and quite possible Merlin, Gwen, and Gaius as well); not only rode out ahead of Arthur, Merlin, and the knights to warn Alvarr that they were coming - thus deliberately endangering their lives by giving the renegades time to set a trap - but offered to stay and help; and drugged the guards to help Alvarr escape, which resulted in the death of at least one knight.

Morgana was a willing enemy of Camelot before Morgause ever recruited her.

He told her, "We can find another way" (3x01) but it's hypocritcal of him to say that when he just accepted the Dragon's words, "You must kill her".

So it's not at all possible that this might to be, oh, I don't know, character development? That Merlin honestly hated and regretted what he did in 2x12 and made an effort to do things differently when faced with a similar situation in 3x01/3x02?

''I agree that Morgana didn't know that she was the vessel for the spell. It's quite possible that she never knew.''

While I agree that Morgana likely never knew she was the source of the spell, I don't buy for a minute that Morgana had no idea what was going on. She agreed to help Morgause and then the next thing she knew she was back in Camelot and everyone was dropping like flies. She'd have to be braindead not to at least suspect a connection.