Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20130816211001/@comment-5102537-20130818113459

I agree with you, ReganX. The way Morgana was described in season one and partly in season two, knowing of Merlin's magic would most likely have helped her coping with her own powers, and maybe she even would have become Merlin's ally.

And here lies the problem: the way she was described in season one was logical and almost everything she did made sense. I wouldn't say that she was completely good because trying to kill her guradian, let alone in such a manipulative and sneaky way, isn't exactly an act of goodness. Nevertheless, knowing that she wasn't alone probably would have helped her and might have prevented her from becoming so evil ...

IF it hadn't been for the drastic change in season three. She suddenly wasn't open to any sense anymore, which actually indicates that something happened with her in the time gap between season two and three. In case that Kilgharrah knew - or that it was her destiny to become completely evil - the knowledge of Merlin's powers wouldn't have helped her later due to whatever happened to her during the missing year. If the writers/showrunners had delivered an explanation for her sudden change, maybe an enchantment/spell by Morgause, for example, she would have betrayed Merlin anyway. Like Gwen when she was enchanted and didn't care for anyone anymore.

So if it was part of her future, fate and destiny to maybe getting enchanted and/or brainwashed, it made sense that she mustn't know about Merlin's true nature. If she simply changed because she got or was mad due to her fears, which was totally unbelievable, knowing of Merlin's magic could have prevented this.

I'd like to think that magic was involved in regard to her total hatred (spell/enchantment by Morgause), so nothing would have changed, except that she would have betrayed Merlin and told Uther about him. Any other thing wouldn't make much sense in regard to seasons three to five.

Alas, the show wanted us to believe at first that it was Uther who made her evil and then, in the end, that it was Merlin.

But if we assume that this was the case (which has always been rubbish to me), things would have been different if Morgana had known who Merlin really was in season one already.