User blog:It's Good to be the Queen/Guinevere's Dark Side?

Producers and writers have hinted that Gwen will have a dark side in season 5. Many think it means she will become evil and the clue is all in a certain black dress:



We all know basic black is Morgana's signature look now, but I think is Gwen could be in mourning. One story out there is that Arthur would die this season (please don't) and this is a funeral scene.

I think Gwen's dark side may lean towards the hard decisions she would now have to make as queen. Take a look at this picture:



This is not the Gwen we first met in season 1. The old Gwen had a hardknock life but she always looked at the bright side and never let anything or anyone get her down, no matter how bad things were. Now she's queen and she shares the weight of the crown with Arthur and she has to look as things differently. She's on a higher perch and things are not as black and white as where she was before. Never has Gwen in her wildest dreams thought she would marry a king, let alone have equal power of a monarch. Her and Arthur's decisions affect lives.

Judging from this picture she's not afraid to weild that power. (Spoiler?) This is a scene from the execution of the two women set to be hanged, one being Eira. As was discussed before, Eira was Morgana's Mata Hari sent in to hook up with Gwaine all so to get infomation on Arthur's plans. The queen probably got wise, got the evidence and sprung her trap. As Eira and the other woman were going to the scafford, Queen Guinevere stood there until the end, even as Eira's body twisted in the wind. (I'm not sure why the other woman was executed, but it may be tied to Eira.) Gwen did not flinch once. It will probably shock Morgana that the blacksmith's daughter she has derided as a peasant unworthy of the crown she thinks is rightfully hers had the stones to order her snitch's death. That's the dark side, I think. It's a bigger blow to Morgana when word gets around she, the nobly born and raised royal bastard armed with magic, was outsmarted and thwarted by a woman of "common stock". A woman that was once HER maid.

Season 5 should be fancinating in terms of Gwen. She's come a long way to get where she is now. She will most likely make decisions she would regret, but I think it will balance out and show her as strong, yet human, worthy to be Arthur's consort and queen of Camelot.



LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.