User blog comment:Dryuuu/The defeat of the Southrons.../@comment-4892425-20120317143710

I haven't seen the episode but I have read the synopsis, This is my takeaway:

When the dragon barbequed half of Morgana's and Helios' forces, the remaining forces scattered because they weren't willing to take on flying napalm.

This episode showed what a joke Morgana is as a leader. She rounded up a bunch of rag-tag vandals to take Camelot. Once she hears her forces were wiped out, she panics and doesn't come up with a plan B. She lets her personal vendettas cloud her judgments and she makes bonehead moves. She's basically relying on her magic to hold power, which I think is her true goal. She's using the Great Purge as a convenient excuse. (If this was a war to restore magic, why couldn't she recruit an all-sorcerer army?). In the big confrontation scene in the throne room, once she learns her powers are gone, SHE RUNS. Morgana has sword skills; why didn't she have a face-off with Arthur since she thinks she's the "rightful" monarch? Instead, she jets to leave Helios and company to clean up her mess, fights only to save her own hide and tries to take down someone whom she knows is not as good with a blade (Gwen). At the end of the day Arthur was willing to give his life for Camelot and its people; Morgana bails so not to end her days on the executioner's block for treason. The magical mean girl is nothing but a coward.

I agree with the point that she's embarassed...she took Camelot TWICE and was defeated each time by a lesser force. True, Arthur's crew had magical back-up, but Morgana had magic too and still couldn't keep the throne past a week. Morgana is going to have a recruiting problem for an army the next time she plots to bring down Camelot.