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 the king but all who served him, including Arthur (and quite possibly 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 them do it; and drugged the guards to allow Alvarr to escape, which resulted in the death of at least one knight.

Morgana was acting against Camelot before Morgause recruited her. Moreover, Morgana's the one who brought up her hatred for Uther in the first place. All Morgause did was ask why she didn't seem happy, then steer the conversation according to her reply.

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 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 really doubt that she 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 a complete idiot not to at least suspect a connection, especially after Morgause showed up and the knights refused to attack her.