Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5729782-20121111105405/@comment-5621713-20121119161824

Back to Evil Gwen- I keep trying to get my mind around what Morgana did that could make Gwen, who was so totally devoted and in love with Arthur, not only turns against him, but now wants him dead...and seems happy only when she thinks his demise is near. What happened at the Dark Tower that the writers did not show us? The last we saw, Gwen was steadfast in telling MOrgana that she was not going to break her, and that she wanted nothing from her. Was simply telling Gwen about her two year confinement enough to totally turn Gwen around? Was apologizing and telling Gwen that perhaps she has gone to far, and been too cruel to Gwen enough to make Gwen forget all the trouble she had caused Gwen, Arthur, and Camelot? Yes, they both hated Uther, but Gwen always put her love for Arthur above her own anger over Uther's killing her father. So, what did Morgana do in that short time between the last time we see them in the dining room, and when Elyan comes to rescue her. Yes, good point that Gwen said that the sword was to protect her, was she somehow very quickly convinced that her own brother, her husband, and her dear friends were all really her enemies?She knew that what she was seeing in the Mandrake root room was not real, she kept repeating that..".I know you're not real, I know it's not really you". Did she break and we just didn't see it?

Related to this is the question of what happened to Morgana between the end of the last episode of season 4, and the first of season five. Who chained Morgana and Aithusa in the well? Why didn't Morgana use her powerful magic to free herself? Was the enchantment that Merlin used to block her magic that strong that it lasted two or three years? Why couldn't Aithusa free MOrgana? Did Arthur have her chained in the pit? Did Morgana reveal this to Gwen, and was this part of what she used to turn Gwen against Arthur? How did Morgana finally get free? DId Ruadan free her? He is with her when we first see her again in the first episode of season 5. We know that he hates the Pendragons. Did he free Morgana, tell her of the Diamer and Arthur's Bane? Will any of this be clarified in the next episode? I'd love to know what other fans think.