User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Lookism in Villains - common perception/@comment-5102537-20121125130646

I have no idea who Sarrum is/was but I see it the way you do, Alfons? - with regards to Chris of whom I think has also other reasons for loving Morgana :-) Chris, I think you are one of the few who see that Morgana's charater has been described badly when she suddenly turned into an evil witch and as far as I understand your affection for her, you still think that she could have been so much more and that she still has some humanity inside of her, even though I disagree with the last part.

However, I think Alfons has a point and it's what I've always thought, too. I've also come across with some harsh fans who see Morgana as some kind of a fighter for feminism which, to me, is total nonsense when a woman does the same or even worse things than a man. It has nothing to do with feminism, yet a lot of female Morgana fans see her as a strong fighter and as a someone who can prevail against the harsh male world. They see, for some weird reason, justice in her behaviour and consider her to be a victim who fights back. Total rubbish. Unfortunately, the producers could have portrayed her like this but missed this chance and made her simply and evil monster and someone who enjoys to hurt others. No justice, no strength, no feminism but only brutality and insanity. It's a shame because she used to be a strong character in the beginning.

I agree that most male (but also female) Morgana-fans are fans because she's hot. No problem with this, it's just a TV show after all, but I think it's disturbing when fans demand the death of a character or even want them to suffer and to die slowly while defending a hot and attractive super-villain. Let's face it, Merlin and Arthur have the most fans because they look cute and they are young, even though they're around their thirties now. It's true, if they were sixty years olds, nobody would care much but maybe only the adult viewers who are interested in mature and intelligently described characters and good stories. And quite true, if Gaius wasn't portrayed by the great and awesome Richard Wilson but by a young and fresh and muscular man, most fans would want to keep him. By the way, I don't understand why some want to get rid of him anyway... he is the only more mature character left.

I would understand and support the love for Morgana if she was described as a multifaced and questionable character like Uther was. The way they changed her into this brutal and torture-loving killer eliminated my interest in her I had in the first two seasons. I can't see her as humane and interesting character when she acts like an insane monster, no matter how pretty she is.? I wish they had done it differently.