User blog comment:Morganaforever/Episode Review: Another's Sorrow/@comment-4892425-20121027223706

Thanks for the compliment on the call on Mithian, Morganaforever.

Since I can't see episodes until January I go by some of the reviews that I read.

A couple of points: with Gwen questioning Arthur about helping Mithian, Gwen raised the question "is it for revenge?" I take it she is talking about Arthur's desire to make Odin pay for Uther's death (that's odd considering Ghost Uther tried to kill Arthur and Gwen last week). I presume Gwen knows about Mithian and the almost-political marriage and why it didn't go through. Gwen is more upset about Arthur going into danger constantly that if Arthur dies there would be no stability in Camelot. There's no legal heir to the throne yet and Gwen has no royal bun in the oven. She would not have authority to govern Camelot upon Arthur's death; and with no clear line of sucession, the kingdom would be wide open for Morgana to take over permanently. That is more of Gwen's concern than Arthur's helping out his arranged ex.

(Sidenote: there have be complaints about not enough Arwen time and hot romance.  I'm wondering if people were hoping for re-enactments of scenes from "The Tudors" and "Game of Thrones"?  They've been married for three years and they are co-rulers of Camelot; it doesn't mean there is no passion in the marriage.  The evidence of that, to me, is in 5x03, the coronation banquet scene.  Arthur giving Gwen that tender kiss on the cheek, then getting up from the table and stroking Gwen's bare shoulder in front of the court.  It's not full-blown sex, but it's tender and sensuous at the same time.

Also - why didn't anyone catch on about Morgana? What wouldn't it be suspicious for an elderly woman to come along on a dangerous mission? But then again they had Gaius coming along, still not sure why.

Morgana torturing Mithian - seriously? There could have been another way to ensure Mithian's cooperation. The writers are making Morgana more of a cartoon villian by the episode. Does Morgana resent Mithian because she is something Morgana is not: a princess? Both have kings for fathers, but Morgana couldn't take the HRH appeallation because the dirty circumstances of her conception and birth. (Question: did Morgana throw 'the broken engagement in Mithian's face'?) The torturing of Mithian tells me that if Arthur and Mithian's marriage went through Morgana would have targeted Mithian for the same reason she goes after Gwen:  Mithian "stole" Morgana's "birthright" as Camelot's queen. Her obession for the throne shows when Morgana almost kills Merlin but stops so she can go after Arthur, the main person that is keeping her from the crown, so she thinks.