User blog comment:Morganaforever/Characters I feel sorry about/@comment-5102537-20130117103009

Hey Chris, good to see you.

What you wrote here:

"When a character goes through one or two of those, that's okay. However, as a writer, would you add EVERYTHING out of those above to a hero(ine) of yours? Isn't it a bit TOO much at a point? I, for example, would not do all of the above even to a character of my story that I really hate. By giving your character more and more pain and misery you do not make their evil actions more "believable", neither it is realistic. Naturally, one would expect someone who would go through everything listed above to at least go through depression or give up on living."

I agree! I have already criticised the show's attitude to let its own characters suffer beyond belief and I'm disgusted that there was so much sadism in a family show. It's even worse that it was sort of "subtle" (yet more than obvious) suffering and sadism, meaning, without graphically showing it in all pureness (no blood and such). The emotional torment and suffering was much too much for quite some characters.

Even though I didn't like the way they portayed Morgana after the first two seasons, the show runners seem to have been as keen to  send her through hell like they were with Uther who suffered even more until he died like an animal. Then, what in the world was the purpose of having poor Aithusa being tortured? To me, this was very similar to show the torment of a pet (for example) in a TV show, or better, the outcome of it. This was also totally unnecessary.

I feel sorry for Uther, Aithusa and Arthur the most. Morgana was so very unlikable to me that I'm having a hard time sympathising with her, yet I agree with you that tormenting a character like this was way out of line. Uther was a character that suffered for decades and perished in total misery and suffering, humiliation and pain, then suffered even in the afterlife.

Aithusa... well, what can I say? Torturing a baby dragon that reminds us of a puppy was again too much.

And Arthur was as much a victim of the Old Religion as Uther and Igraine were. He didn't know anything about any prophecy, he was born to end the ban of magic even though his birth caused the ban of magic and he died not knowing about his importance, he died alone (without Gwen) and not knowing that Morgana killed their father. He was treated like a fool and was totally used by pretty much everyone, even by Merlin.