User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why NOT to hate on Morgana/@comment-85.237.212.236-20121013125439/@comment-4650675-20121013150719

I believe that she is definitely not a psychopath/sociopath or anything like that. If I rmember correctly, the discussion we had in the post about you describing Morgana as such a person ended with both of us accepting that many actions of the characters take many different interpretions ;) In my opinion, Uther is the one suffering from a mental disease, but this is probably best to discuss in one of your own posts about that character!

We do not know if Morgana did not speak of Gorlois. Just because she didn't speak about him in season 1 (so many years after his death) does not mean she did not use to. I also agree that children don't bother hiding their feelings, and that's why Morgana fought Uther from the beginning, as quoted by Uther himself. She had no other reason to do that, don't you think? Also, it is only natural not to speak about Uther "killing" Gorlois. Accusing the king of murder is high treason and she was afraid of being executed for speaking the truth. Uther was always short on temper as well. Also, why should she talk to the man who killed her father about such a painful issue to her? That's totally understandable. Driven mad, seeing how "it keeps on happening", as Morgana said, and Uther killed Tom, after her own father, leaving both her and Gwen alone in the world, Morgana decided to avenge both. I am sure everyone agrees on that and it was pretty clear on the episode, there's no denying it.

As for the other points, not all of them are facts.

As I pointed on my blog post, torturing Elyan and the others was not for her amusement. It was a political move. This raises her spirit of her own soldiers, by exposing and ridiculing the enemy. I can easily name at least 3 examples of this that I know from history, if you want.

She started a war with Helios, killing each and everyone in her way. I didn't see her killing anyonne during her raid to Camelot. At least not innocents.

WIth the Annis issue, she was not "willing to watch thousands of people die" because she expected what Arthur would do. She was not surprised at all, and she said there was no trick because "he is Arthur" and knew how her half-brother would behave.

"She tormented and finally killed her own father after having broken him and causing him a year in hell in total misery and pain, having him ripped off of his pride, his kingdom, his self-confidence, his dignity, his control over body and mind, his hope and his will to live, only because of her hate for him, not willing to see that she was the one why Uther had the complete mental breakdown because he loved her so much." To Morgana, he was not her father. Not only blood makes someone father. Locking your children in the dungeons when defying you, or not giving them the right to know who their parent is, for example, is not suitable for a father, much more a loving one. Besides, she didn't plan to have him tormented for so long. And she certainly did not torment him. And for the "numerous attempts on her father's life", she only did...2 after learning he is her father. All her attempts were centered around Arthur, after learning Uther is her "father".

She did not want to burn the crops so that the people starve. She did it so that the people obey her. This has happened many times in history as well, and once again I'm willing to present certain examples.

Anyway, I think discussing this on mail would be way more convneient than comments, don't you think? :) I have to scroll down too much to reply to each of your points!