User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on "Morgana's Death"/@comment-4879894-20121211010550/@comment-5102537-20121213125940

Let's assume for a moment that the producers don't change every happening and character all of a sudden and stick to what was demonstrated on the show. Let's also assume that for once we can believe what the show has presented to us and that there is some kind of logic in the stories, at least in some of them. If this is the case, then Nimueh was indeed the one who chose Igraine to die.

This was confirmed by Gaius and Merlin when both accused her of having chosen Igraine and of being the one who decides who has to die (Merlin told her that it wasn't the Old Religion but that it was her who chooses the life in exchange for another and Gaius told Nimueh that "this time the price should be a fair one" in regard to Igraine when he wanted to sacrifice himself for Merlin). We also witnessed that Nimueh could indeed choose Gaius for Hunith. Given that, Nimueh is directly responsible for Uther's wrath. Moreover, even if she couldn't choose, which she could, she knew that someone close to Uther would die, yet she didn't tell him. Also Gaius said it directly to Uther when telling him that Uther couldn't know that Igraine would die. Whether he was warned that SOMEONE would die or not, he didn't know that someone close to him would. When Nimue claimed that she didn't know about Igraine, she simply lied because when she was blamed by Gaius and Merlin, she didn't object but instead smirked and told Merlin that together they could rule the world.

Nimueh wasn't just any sorceress but a High Priestess of the Old Religion, directly connected to it and working for it, executing its plans and also capable of choosing who has to die. This weird and illogical story in The Sins of the Father caused confusion because Igraine obviously believed that it was Uther who sacrificed her, for whatever reason she believed that. Yet, Excalibur and Le Morte d'Arthur told us otherwise. Not to mention that Uther's revenge and the Great Purge would have been totally and completely illogical if he had sacrificed Igraine willingly. What would he have wanted to take revenge for then? Wouldn't make any sense.

So it was Nimueh/the Old Religion who are responsible for the Great Purge, or better, for upsetting Uther who started the Great Purge. They took Igraine intentionally, despite the fact that the Triple Goddess shapes and sees the future, presides and knows all.

The reason why the viewers weren't so sad about Nimueh's death (most of them) was the fact that they didn't get used to her as a character as they did to Uther and Morgana. Her death wasn't considered to be cruel because she actually wasn't punished for her evilness by Merlin but she was killed by her own doing when Merlin had to restore the balance of the world again by taking her life. I'm sure he wouldn't have harmed her if she had agreed to save Gaius and to take Merlin's life instead. Merlin had to decide whether to sacrifice innocent Gaius or to save gaius by killing evil Nimueh who caused this all in the first place. The Questing Beast appeared on both happenings - back then when Igraine died and when Arthur was bitten by it. It was a creature of the Old Religion and both times Nimueh had a hand in it. If Nimueh had agreed to take Merlin's life, as was planned by him, she would still be alive, yet she chose to first threaten Arthur's life, then Hunith's, then Gaius and then demanded Merlin to just accept it. There was no other way for Merlin to save innocents and it was Nimueh's fault alone because she left him no choice whatsoever, not even his own sacrifice.

As for Morgana not being evil, Chris, you know that I'm with you that killing off characters should stop once and for all, even though I can't take Morgana seriously anymore. However, if the producers really want to sell Morgana as being a victim and not as being evil or a real villain, this would be the hypocrisy I mentioned before. They can't really expect us to believe that Uther was evil and a villain when Morgana, who is 1000 times worse than him, is not. That's totally ridiculous. Morgana is not a victim. She is the offender, in every possible way. Uther's hatred focused on magic only, Morgana doesn't care about anything or anyone, except for Aithusa maybe. She's willing to sacrifice her own people whereas Uther offered his own life for the innocent people of Camelot when Morgana killed them.

The only real villain on this show is Morgana. And back then Nimueh, Morgause as well as still the Triple Goddess. I recently watched an interview with the wonderful Katie McGrath in shich she said that Morgana only wants to be accepted for who she is. As much as I like Katie McGrath and loved Morgana in the beginning, this is downplaying what Morgana has done and is doing. Morgana does everything in her power to be hated, by everyone, not only by those she fights. She became evil by choice because she had the choice to either try to restore magic the humane way or by torturing and killing everyone. She didn't suffer a severe shock like Uther that made her believe that everyone who doesn't have magic is evil and she was respected and loved by her family and friends. She knew and always said that Arthur was a good man, yet she didn't even try to convince him and to drag him on her side. She didn't give Uther the chance to prove that he would not kill her, she also ignored the fact that he didn't when he learnt of her powers and didn't go after her but instead suffered from depression in a catatonical state which finally proved to her that he wouldn't have killed her. She knew that Merlin would have helped her, yet she decided to kill him. Gwen was her best friend but she constantly tries to kill her too, and if she doesn't, she turns her evil in order to use her for her horrific and evil plans. If Morgana really only wanted to be accpeted for who she is, she would have cared for those she held dear because she is not five years old but a grown up woman, therefore she knew that her friends couldn't accept her as a sorceress when they simply didn't know about her powers. And when they suddenly figured it out, they figured it the hard way when she tried to kill everyone all of a sudden, tormented and tortured them, killed her own father and constantly tries to destroy Camelot.

To make Uther suddenly and subsequently a villain but to claim that Morgana isn't a villain, is not only hypocrisy but totally stupid, crazy and also a very dangerous message. It would justify the concept of revenge, of killing the own parents, of torturing and killing others, of waging wars - all because the poor girl only wants to be accepted. I'm sure, Chris, you can't really think that either. I don't know what's gotten into the producers/writers/the crew/whomever, but really, the audience can't be that stupid to be fooled and manipulated like this.

Nevertheless, I don't think that killing her off in order to show that she needs to be punished is a good way. They already totally messed up with Uther, so hopefully they somehow manage to set things right and to show that killing is not the punishment that is to be desired and that Uther wasn't evil and that Morgana is NOT a victim and that her actions can't be justified (without killing her off). Alas, 'm sure they won't set anything right.