Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130601104158/@comment-5674726-20130602081650

StrengthCourageMagic wrote: I really liked this episode! I love how the story of Morgana and her magic kind of  'starts'. I too think that if Gaius would've helped her, Merlin too, she  would have been able to handle the situation way better. She wouldn't have been so scared, I think..

I don't think that she was able to cope with the isolation and fear.

In Season Two, she has very little interaction with Arthur, compared to Season One. Gaius tells Merlin that they need to take care of her but I don't think that Merlin said a word to her until The Witch's Quickening, and Gaius stuck to drugging her. She and Guinevere were drifting apart, especially as Guinevere was dealing with her budding relationship with Arthur - not only something that had to be kept a secret because of the issue of her commoner background but Guinevere had previously expected that Arthur would marry Morgana. She was too afraid of Uther's reaction to her magic to feel comfortable around him. She was too quick to trust the magic users she encountered because of her isolation and her fear, even though some of them weren't people she should have placed her faith in.