User blog comment:OneofthePendragon94/Does someone know what happened to Morgana's mother Vivienne?/@comment-4650675-20130101204713/@comment-5674726-20130101222456

''I too think that the whole Vivienne/Uther thing was lazy writing and only happened so that Morgana has a reason to chase after the throne for 3 consecutive seasons. Why? Because they had Uther betray his best friend, first of all. Secondly, there's every chance that he also betrayed Ygraine. Thirdly, the whole Morgana/Arthur thing that was going on in front of his eyes during season 1. I think it should have never happened or, if it had to, then have Morgana and Arthur have a common mother, Ygraine, like in the legends.''

I would be surprised if it was planned from the beginning of the series that Uther was Morgana's father.

Would Uther have really been able to not only cite a promise to another man as the only reason why he wasn't executing his daughter but to threaten to break his promise to protect her if she defied him again?

Even fitting the relationship with Vivienne into Uther's history is problematic. It seems very probable that he and Ygraine would have been married at least several years before he got worried enough about the lack of children to be prepared to resort to magic to conceive a child, and an affair during the marriage doesn't seem likely, yet Morgana and Arthur strike me as being very close in age.

One possibility is that it was a one-night stand between a lonely Vivienne and a grieving Uther not long after Ygraine's death, something that they both wanted to put behind them.

Alternatively, thanks to a combination of insomnia and way too much caffeine and sugar, it struck me recently that Morgana might have been Uther's punishment from the Triple Goddess for turning against magic, as Mordred was for Arthur.

Arthur's death at Mordred's hand could presumably have been avoided if he'd accepted the Disir's offer, leaving him with a loyal friend instead of an enemy - not that accepting the offer couldn't have led to other problems, depending on the conditions Arthur might have had to meet. Perhaps the Disir sentenced Uther in absentia, since I can't see him answering their summons if somebody tried to give him the coin thing. Giving Uther a daughter with magic to love, and leaving it up to his actions towards people with magic to determine whether he'd have a loving daughter or an enemy, would be a cruel punishment, especially if he was never told what he'd need to do, but perhaps one that the Disir and the Triple Goddess might not have been above inflicting.