Talk:Morgana Pendragon/@comment-109.97.53.235-20140506225502/@comment-5674726-20141003232930

I wouldn't agree that Merlin had no choice but to poison Morgana. There is always a choice and we cannot know what Morgana could or would have done had she been made aware that she was the source of the sleeping spell. Merlin made the choice not to give Morgana a chance to act on the full information about the part she was playing and had to live with the consequences of that choice.

As it was, there were two plausible explanations for her immunity; that her magic protected her or that Morgause was keeping her from becoming infected. She couldn't be expected to instinctively know that the spell would need to be anchored to a host. Merlin, who had had the benefit of about two years of studying magic, needed Kilgharrah to spell it out for him so it is unreasonable to expect that the completely untrained Morgana should have known that, not only did the spell need an anchor, she was that anchor and that this was the reason for her immunity.

Would she have tried to put an end to the sleeping spell if she knew what was at stake? Maybe.

Might things have turned out better? It's hard to imagine them turning out worse.