User blog comment:Fimber/Your views on Morgana before she "changed"?/@comment-4650675-20120626193648

Another magnificent blog post from you, Fimber!

I'll begin with your question in the end. I do not believe that Morgana knew Tom would be killed, because before giving the keys to him she directly approached Uther and demanded freeing him. She only wanted Gwen's father to be safe so that Gwen would not worry about him. That's something I never questioned. However, what was questionable was if she wanted Uther dead because of what happened to Gorlois, or what happened to Tom or generally what "curses" he brought along the land. Sure, in series 1 she often displayed that she cared about the kingdom a lot, but I think personal revenge fueled her more than her love on that one.

If you ask me, her hatred was visible even from the first episode. Her disagreement with the execution of Mary Collins' son and Gaius asking Merlin to deliver her a potion to help her sleep justify this just perfectly.

To be honest, Morgana has been my favorite character from series 1 until series 4, but in the first and last series she was the best. In series 3 she was too much of a puppet and in series 2 she did not remind her series 1 character so much. She was not that brave, independent and manipulative woman but rather a scared girl that fears for her life because of her unusual gift.

Now, as for the Crystal Cave scene, you were right that, like many other scenes involving Morgana, it is left up to the audience for interpretation. Morgana in series 1 was manipulative, this is true. However, in this scene it was more like he wanted her family to accept her. When Uther did not do that, she was evidently hurt and, what's more, when Morgause visited her she was not the calm, calculative villain that she was in the rest of the series but rather full of rage and sadness. She refused to listen to her sister, despite blindly obeying her so far and was convinced that she had to kill the man who had lied to her all these years, damn the consequences. She knew that this way she would never become queen and would also be executed, but it did not matter to her. This is why I think that she had no mastermind plan at all when she confessed to Uther how important Arthur and he were to her and I believe that, at this point, there was still a chance of her giving up on her evil acts.