User blog comment:Morganaforever/Morgana's character/@comment-5036924-20111219234120

I so agree. Morgana's characterisation has been the most irritating thing for me since S2 began. They pushed her into this villain thing far too fast and pretty much hit the reset button on everything she was in S1 - namely a compassionate, kind, defiant, morally bound woman who wanted to make Camelot a more just place. She felt that Uther was wrong in his harsh treatment of innocents, so why would she then do exactly the same? Her reasoning for wanting the throne was supposedly to make things better and eradicate Uther's tyranny, so surely she would want to be a good queen as opposed to another vicious tyrant? There is no reason whatsoever for her to be as cruel as she was in the last episode; the Morgana we were first introduced to abhorred torture, burning, leaving the helpless to die etc. and the Morgana we have now is a polar opposite of that, which I don't think is a rational or reasonable jump from her original character. I don't buy it, basically, and I do so wish they'd made more of the emotional conflict, the doubt and the regret that there SHOULD have been. She showed signs of melancholy a few times this series, like with Uther's death and Lancelot's resurrection, but it wasn't enough to make her a believable character.

I still take issue with the fact that she wants the throne at all, since she always believed that Arthur would be a better king than his father. Why then does she want to stop him having that chance? And why didn't she trust him back when her magic started? They were close, they shared a childhood and he always stuck up for her. He must have been the person she knew best, but that wasn't shown at all after S1. I dislike how they brusquely cut off the Arthur/Morgana relationship - it's not just that they threw the siblings thing in so late, but also that they completely ignored how deep the connection between them was. It's not realistic to wake up one day and forget you loved and grew up with someone and suddenly turn into a homicidal, bloodthirsty maniac with lots of black eyeliner.