Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130727145913/@comment-5102537-20130826095406

GiantKid wrote:

While logically I believe she would have wanted Uther dead, regardless of if she knew what truly was going on, is more plausible and likely to have happened if she wasn't poisoned, a fine case could be made  that she wouldn't have. The fact that she didn't kill him when left alone, and she risked her own life trying to save him is strong enough for a case.

I would believe that anyone who was asleep would not have been harmed, and that Morgana would have made Morgause spare her friends, as she did at the end of season 3 for Gwen.

Hi GiantKid, welcome to the Merlin Wikia.

Interesting thoughts. Morgana couldn't have killed Uther when she was alone with him due to the fact that Arthur gave her the sword and trusted her with his father's life. Had she killed Uther here, Arthur would have known that it was her doing, of course. And Morgana didn't know what to do because she obviously wasn't completely in on the secret of Morgause's plan. So she couldn't risk crossing her sister's plans by killing Uther when she didn't know what exactly Morgause had planned with him. And Arthur would have punished her for killing Uther.

As for everyone who was asleep would not have been harmed. I'm sure they would. Aside from what Gaius told Merlin ("It's more than a story, Merlin. Some 300 years ago, seven of Camelot's knights were seduced by a sorcerer's call. One by one, they succumbed to her power. At her command, they became a terrifying and brutal force that rode through the lands leaving death and destruction in their wake."), the Knights of Medhir tried to kill Arthur and Merlin, plus they weren't necessary to kill only a sleeping Uther. Anyone could have done it once he was asleep. As I've wriotten already, I wonder why the Knights were even there when either Morgause, Morgana or anyone they had sent could have killed pretty much everyone in Camelot when they were asleep. Maybe the Knights of Medhir were sent there to kill all of them faster and more effectively, since Camelot had a lot of inhabitants.

At least the royal household plus their knights and Gaius and Merlin were supposed to be killed because it wouldn't have changed much if only Uther had died but Arthur survived. Morgause surely didn't want to replace Uther with Arthur because it wouldn't have made much sense.