User blog comment:Jessica 'juicy' May/Morgana always bad/@comment-5036924-20120126195502/@comment-5036924-20120130121541

I agree with Morganaforever. In typical fashion the writers needed to make it blindingly obvious that Arthur is good and Morgana is evil. For some reason they won't allow the lines to be blurred, and instead make characters either wholly 'good' or completely 'bad' (maybe they think younger viewers won't be able to handle moral ambiguity, I don't know). Hence Morgana from S1 was in the first category and is now in the second, which comes across as total hypocrisy. They need Morgana to be a terrible ruler so the audience supports Arthur and Merlin. It's never very subtle.

I agree with you; she should've shown mercy and remorse to keep within her original characterisation, but they've long since thrown that out, sadly. It was irrational for her to do burn crops etc when she knows first hand it would be easily more effective to just be a fair ruler. She of all people should know traitors spring from injustice.