Thread:Waterwecna/@comment-5102537-20120903234834/@comment-5102537-20120904104513

Hey Gerda,

Sorry, I didn't want to bother you on your wall, just put it here because I couldn't comment on your blog. I just added it in case you would like to add something to the character's differences.

Yes, Uther is my favourite because I think he is the most believable and most interesting character with the most fascinating and best worked out background. It's the nature of those who are older because young Merlin, Arthur, Morgana and Gwen couldn't have experienced so much at their age. Gaius is interesting too but Uther is the most multifaced of the show. And the whole story of the show is based on Uther and his past and present even after his death.

As for Morgana, the punishment for her seems to be intolerable for us but in those times back then the real punishment for disobedience and even conspiring with the enemy was much harder and unbelievable for us. Throwing her in the dungeon was the equivalent of being grounded today unless being imprisoned also contained physical violence, starving and other cruel stuff. It was an attack on Morgana's pride and strong will rather than a physical punishment. Real kings probaly would have done much crueler things and some would have even killed her. I read several reports about royal parents even killing their own children when they were much of disappointment for them.

Morgana was most of all brainwashed and turned evil by Morgause because she got much worse when she returned after the year with Morgause. I don't know what fomented her hatred so much but it reached its climax when she returned in season three. She hated Uther because she was afraid of him and I understand that fear can make you hate a person and confuse you but Morgana totally disregared and ignored Uther's love for her. It was as if she didn't WANT to ackknowledge his love in order to continue her hate. Being afraid of someone doesn't justify to become evil and to run amok. She claims that it was Uther who made her that way but what people claim and think doesn't necessarily have to be the truth. I once met mentally disturbed people when a friend took me with him to his work. Especially those with shizophrenia blamed others for the most normal things and felt being treated bad and even threatened. The character description of Morgana is the description of a mentally ill person. Disliking her father and being afraid of him and opposing him is one thing - but hating him that much and blaming him for everything that she does is insane and delusional. Morgana is totally fixated on Uther and uses him as an excuse for all she did and does.

If someone is afraid of, let's say, the police (e.g.) because they were treated unkindly, they can't just kill others, torture people and then say that it isn't their fault but the fault of the police.

If memory serves well, Lex didn't blame his father for his malice (or did he?.... I'm not so sure...). And he was still not as evil as Morgana is although he had much more reason since Lionel treated him really bad and raised him to become a hard and remorselessly busines man while blaming him to be dangerous at the same time. Morgana was loved and praised by Uther which was the quite opposite of what Lionel did to Lex.

It's a real tragedy. Uther and Morgana were the only ones who were capable of saving each other, yet Morgana destroyed everything and by that even herself. I'm looking forward to his return in season five but I also think that his reappearance will be a very short and dissatisfying one. I would like to have him meeting Morgana, alas it won't happen, I think.