User blog comment:Fimber/Things that went wrong in "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"/@comment-7285162-20130415005522/@comment-7285162-20130603191114

Just another thought about Nimueh. Why do you think she replied to Merlin and Gaius like that? Was it sadistic pleasure... or something else?

The power of the life and death... Would one really enjoy having it? It's quite a gruesome duty if you think about it, and Nimueh had to do it many times, I guess. I see her more similar to The Cailleach, really. A sad duty, a psychotic giggle in responce to the mention of innocents dying, telling Merlin that it wasn't all so simple as he wanted it.

Surely Nimueh appered almost orgasmic when executing her vengeful schemes   and taking sadictic pleasure from them at first, but later and especially in the finale she appeared more bitter than anything to me. But then again, maybe it's just me though...