User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/The Most Over-Rated Characters of the Series as a Whole/@comment-91.140.59.8-20130125164938/@comment-5659316-20130125205644

REALLY, Lurker? That's interesting. In my experince, it's been the opossite, kind of. People, that I've noticed, tend to blame MERLIN and Kilgharrah BOTH for MORGANA'S actions/changes. I can't think of even ONE example of a person who has blamed Kilgharrah for MERLIN's problems.

Maybe a few, here and there, who are not Morgana fans have blamed her (and, admitedly, at times, rightly so, as she did do some very vindictive things to him -including shoving him off a cliff after coming up with the slowest, most painful possible way for him to die after appealing to his better nature by sending a boy begging for help with his dying little sister, and in only one season earlier trying to force him to kill his own best friend and master...), but not overtly so, most often. Indeed, I've seen WAY more Morgana justifiers than blamers... I only blame where I see her as doing something intentionally cruel, even though I DO like her character as well, even when she's evil.

What really gets under my skin is how people blame Kilgharrah for Aithusa joining Morgana. That annoys me. Why is poor old Kilgharrah expected to be a full-time baby sitter? In that case, I would admit maybe MERLIN as the DRAGONLORD should have been a little more concerned about where the baby he hatched in season four WAS for two years. I mean, he seemed almost obessively concerned about the egg, but once she was hatched, in spite of the regret he showed in Arthur's Bane when he discovered she was all cripply and couldn't speak, he sort of left Aithusa out to dry. I mean, couldn't he have tried to summon her from time to time, too, just like Kilgharrah? Though, I really wish Freya had been brought back into the story and Aithusa had been HER dragon instead. It would have been cute and fitting, because Merlin back in The Lady of the Lake kept comparing himself to Freya ("it could have been ME in that cage" "WE don't have to hide anything" etc...), so she would have been a fitting dragon guardian to be parelled to him. Though I admit I enjoyed the Morgana/Aithusa interactions regardless.