User blog:It's Good to be the Queen/Get over yourself, Morgana

I would really like to know what makes Morgana think she has any right to the throne of Camelot. She is the result of an adulterous affair between King Uther Pendragon and his best friend's wife. (Some friend.) As the illegitimate issue of a monarch she is not in the line of succession; ineligible to inherit the throne. I think in Morgana's twisted logic she must kill Arthur and Gwen: if Arthur dies without issue she can step right in and claim the throne. With Arthur and Gwen married, if and when they have children they would be the legal heirs, thus wiping out any "claim" Morgana would have. I think that's part of the reason Uther kept Morgana's paternity a secret, along with not wanting it to be known that the Great Purger hooked up with a sorceress (can we say hyprocrisy). Uther would not want Arthur's inheritance threathened, even in the slightest. If it got out that Morgana was born on the wrong side of the royal blanket, a powerful lord or rival king could take Morgana as a wife and use the marriage to take Camelot. I don't think Uther planned to marry off Morgana at all for those reasons.

Uther has done her wrong but how she dealt with her daddy issues were unacceptable. She took her anger out at people who had nothing to do with this. She used magic as an instrument of torture, a means to frame people for crimes they didn't commit, a tool to commit regicide, a weapon for attempted murder and a weapon of mass destruction. Since she has been stripped of her powers (I don't think the white dragon destroyed them) I'd love to see Morgana stand trial for treason in season 5. That would be an interesting twist.