User blog comment:Rod12/What New Characters would you like to see in Series 5/@comment-4650675-20111231185945/@comment-4650675-20120103105319

I agree, both of them are great characters and the actors portraying them do their best too. One can easily see the extent of their acting skills at Morgana's poisoning scene. Also, as you said, Merlin is a very strong individual and he is also human, which means he isn't an angel and not all his actions should be good. We should see a darker side of him. However, in season 1 when he was still "a kid", he did use magic at his own advantage, like when he fought Arthur on the very first episode.I think that using his magic for good shows how much he's matured.Also, Morgana does show her softer side after Morgause's death. It's obvious that her sadistic and cruel personality is just a mask, since you can clearly see some of the old Morgana when she confronts Merlin or Arthur. I think that deep down she is scared, helpless and trying to be accepted for who she is, like back in season 2. When she sees that,no matter what she does, the others are unwilling to aknowledge her, in a self-defence act she does cruel things, like how she ordered the villagers' crops to be burned. However, I don't actually think that she has the heart to have her best friends die by her hand, because she had the chance to kill Arthur and Gwen more than enough times and of course the same goes for Merlin. Also, she feels betrayed by all of them: Merlin poisoned her and tried to have her killed, Gwen abandoned her, and she feels that all of this happened simply because she had magic and Arthur follows his father's steps:magic is still banned in Camelot. I think that, if she learnt about Merlin's magic, even at this point, she could still be redeemed, since she would realise thet he's suffered from the same things she does and that magic can be used for good, even if you can't always take credit for it.