User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-5102537-20120619122642

You're right, Morganaforever, a redemption wouldn't be believable to me if there wasn't magic involved in Moragana's incomprehensible change. I think there is a difference between being "evil" or doing evil things on one side and crazy killing and torturing and hating on the other.

Wether we are overanalyzing or not, and I assume we do, in Morgana's case, or in everyone else's for that matter, those fictional characters are actually a mirror of real people. Morgana might have magical powers but she is still a human being and as such, there have to be weaknesses and strengths and everything else that defines a human, wether fictional or not. When a TV show provides stories and characters that the viewer can identify with and that reminds them of something familiar, namely seeing fictinal human beings interacting or acting, there should be logic and continuity, explanation and comprehension. Just creating a person/character without a background or a logical development doesn't make sense. So Morgana's development must have reasons, but every reason that people can think of could never make her that evil, never ever. Therefore, according to her actions and motives, there must be something very wrong with her, and since she is still a (fictional) human being, it can only be either some kind of magic that turned her into that monster or she is indeed a psychopath. Psychopaths suffer from lack of activity in the regions of the brain that are responsible for the conscience and for differing between right and wrong. Not every psychopath is born that way.

You mentioned Joker from Batman. We learnt that he wasn't born with his mental illness but that he became what he was due to the unimaginable violence of his father, if I remember correctly. So there is a reason for his insanity, and it is a valid one, although I still find him to be an overstated villain. There are no such terrible reasons for Morgana, but even if there were, she would still not differ from the Joker in what she does. Not every crazy person/psychopath/sociopath behaves absolutely identical, but their lack of empathy and conscience is the same.

The reasons that the show has provided for Morgana so far, are lame. Nothing of what we have seen could ever turn someone into such an unreal monster. So I hope that she is either possessed or enchanted to explain her insane hatred and actions, because every other reason, aside from having had an accident that caused brain damage, wouldn't be plausible or believable.

There is another thing that hints for a serious mental illness, and that is that she doesn't love anyone and she doesn't lead a life a person would actually do or wish for. She has no partner, no love interest, no love for her family or friends, she actually HAS no friends and doesn't want that all, she doesn't want anything, anything at all, except for power. Even the villains in our history acted in some ways like human beings, they had or have partners and/or children/family/friends, enjoyed their hobbies or whatever. There is nothing like this for Morgana. She is an empty shell, filled with hatred, bitterness and hunger for power. A person that is incapable of loving someone or something, is definitely not sane. She has given up everything that once made her human, unlike the other questionable characters of the show, like Uther or Agravaine, Mary Collins, Gilli... We don't know enough about Morgause, so I can't say if she was still human or not. But the writers had given the other characters human attitudes, most of all Uther, to state out that there isn't just black and white, good and evil.

They have taken it away from Morgana, therefore she is being described as a psychopath.

And I have to add that it isn't a good example for kids to see just evil of a character without any insight and explanation. Not to mention that the show was announced of having matured, which is a joke in my opinion. If there wouldn't have died a character every few minutes and if there would have been explanations and logical developments, it would still be a show suitable for almost all ages, but this was, with characters like Morgana and all the other incomprehensible stuff, made for kids and teens. It's just not providing a good example for them, in my opinion.