Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Two/@comment-5102537-20130629093831/@comment-5659316-20130629195058

I actually (by pure chance) rewatched this episode last night. I was just in the mood to watch Merlin and I had some spare time so I put in the dvd. I had no idea it was the episode currently being disscussed.

Anyway, I have a new theory regarding something in this episode I wanted to share.

Is it possible that Morgana and Morgause are not really related? Because Uther assuming a baby Morgause died, Gaius smuggling her away to the high priestess, all seems like something that would come from Gorlois having a bastard; not Vivenne simply having a daughter before Morgana. Also, even though at this point Gaius does NOT know Morgana is uther's daughter, he still describes Morgause as Morgana's half-sister. If it were Vivenne and Gorlois' baby, she would have been her full sister (in Gauis' perception at this point) not half. It would also add fuel to Morgana's anger at finding out Uther is her father, and explain her insistance on being "The daughter of Gorlois" if in her mind Morgause was the only one she could trust; not really being her 'sister' would be earth-shattering to her, so I can see her wanting to kill Uther almost more for that than anything.

However, I suppose it is also possible that Vivenne (Who we know cheated on her husband with Uther and so apparently had no qulams about having lovers when she was lonely) had Morgause out of wedlock and the baby had to be smuggled out. BUT if such was the case, Morgause would have had no cause to wear something from the house of Gorlois, and Gaius said she was the only other person besides Morgana who had a right to....

So, thoughts?