User blog comment:Sweetnatured/Giving Morgana Power by Repeating What Has Already Been Done/@comment-4623180-20121217061325/@comment-4650675-20121217213831

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Great post! However, I think I have to disagree, like the rest. Morgana is the major villain of the show, so she at least has to be as powerful as the main character, right? She is the darkness to his light after all.

Not to mention that compared to Merlin, Morgana has always been at a disadvantage. Merlin has a full-fledged dragon, Morgana has a dragon hatchling who has been crippled and injured. Merlin always knew about Morgana's magic and was able to thward her plans, but she did not know about Merlin's. Merlin has had magic for all his life but Morgana has not. So I think that, to make things challenging, it would be nice for Morgana to be on equal levels with Merlin for once.

Oh, btw, Morgan le Fay does create a pseudo-Excalibur in some retellings as well, so it's not that the writers are getting repetitive on this instance.