Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season One/@comment-5102537-20130223112431/@comment-5674726-20130226001526

What I can't figure out is what Valiant's motivation was. He showed more interest in the prospect of escorting Morgana to the feast than in the prize money, so it seems unlikely that his motive was financial and, as lovely as Morgana is, surely valiant wouldn't go to such lengths to escort her to a feast. There was no suggestion that he wanted to defeat Arthur by fair means or foul to take him down a peg or two. He was taking the kind of measures you might expect in a situation where command of the army was at stake, or where Morgana was the child Uther acknowledged and the winner of the tournament would get to marry her and become heir to the throne.