User blog comment:Dryuuu/Morgana loves sleeping/@comment-5036924-20120225125104

She did sleep a lot in the earlier series in particular, but that was necessary since a large part of her storyline was her prophetic dreams, which are rather hard to show if she's not asleep. I actually think she's seen sleeping a bit less in the last series - we see her looking like she's TRYING to sleep very frequently (curled up on a bed, looking vulnerable etc), but is actually too tense and on edge to do it, hence the jumpiness when Agravaine arrives suddenly. I guess that's reflective of the troubled character she's become. Still, you're right in that she's onscreen in a sleeping situation more often than most others, though I think that's likely due to the fact that dreams and sleep have a very specific importance to her character.

I also think her early sleeping and visions have been replaced, as you say, by her getting knocked out. Which happens a LOT. I think the bad guy being unconscious is becoming a bit of an exhausted plot device so the good guys can solve things. I mean, the outcome of virtually all magical duels is the loser (nearly always the villain) getting knocked out, and that unfortunately happens to poor old Morgana on a regular basis. She's rather become the punchbag of the series because she's always getting foiled and then blasted into a wall or something. :P It's a wonder she doesn't have serious concussion by now.

I hope for some change in this respect too; I'd like some more in-depth character development from Morgana, which means she needs to spend more time talking and explaining herself and less time dreaming or getting bashed in the head!

On another note, we do get quit a few Arthur sleeping shots too, though, although that's probably so the producers can squeeze in more shirtless scenes for him...