User blog comment:Morganaforever/Episode Review: A Lesson in Vengeance/@comment-5674726-20121118224151/@comment-5102537-20121119222706

Since you wrote that you think that the writers might intend to tell us about Morgana being brainwashed because the happenings are so similar, I was under the impression that you too think there must have happened something with Morgana.

All the reasons you gave why Morgana was afraid can't explain this pathological hate for Uther and everyone else. There were and are many people in Camelot who were and are afraid of either Uther or Arthur but none of them went so wacko and insanely filled with hatred. I think the missing year with Morgause and Morgana returning as pure evil happened for a reason.

What you wrote here: "We know from Guinevere that Aredian interrogated Morgana until she was close to breaking point but neither of the Pendragon men interceded on her behalf. From Morgana's perspective, they either knew and allowed it to happen or didn't care enough about her to notice what was going on."

I think that neither Uther nor Arthur knew that Morgana was either questioned or even if, that she was in danger at any time. If they knew at all, they certainly thought that she was simply questioned to help Aredian find hints. Uther trusted him after all and had no idea about Morgana. He would have never allowed anyone to hurt her and Morgana is not ten years old but a grown up woman. She knew very well that Uther and Arthur didn't know of the situation she was in. Yes, she hated Uther in season two already but not to that extent and she didn't hate all the others.

She also overheard Uther talking to Gaius about being her father, so she surely heard that he wanted Gaius to use magic in order to heal her, too. Unfortunately and interestingly, she totally rejected any kind of love and sympathy from Uther towards her. It was as if she didn't want him to love her, totally hiding in her hatred. Fear or not, hate or not, her becoming completely evil can't be explained by anything that has ever happened in Camelot/with Uther/Arthur/Merlin/Gwen/Gaius or whomever. She had changed completely when she returned after the year with Morgause and it would be extremely silly if Morgause had nothing to do with it but if Morgana just woke up one day, thinking that it would be nice to suddenly hate everyone and to kill them. Maybe you're right and it didn't take as much effort as it took to change Gwen, according to what fans wrote about this episode, but such a change without the interference by Morgause or someone else, without brainwashing or even an enchantment in addition to the obviously so similar scenes and happenings with Gwen, would be very unlikely and totally unbelievable.