User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-5102537-20120620095240

Hello Aithusa07, of course, it's fictional, but even fictional characters have to follow some logic. I'm surprised since you called her "a brainwashed psychopath" yourself a few postings above.

I guess you mean the Stockholm Syndrome.

What you say about the year with Morgause is true, but that's what I wrote in an earlier comment: that is the mind of a child (I'm talking about Morgana, not you). Let's say Morgana was around 26 or something when she met Morgause. And her half-sister who happen to be a total stranger tells her that her family wants her dead and that her friends are not her friends and want her dead, too - and Morgana, a grown up woman believes it all, doesn't question the slightest thing, suddenly can't remember all the love she received from them, the help, respect and the warmth, and turns into an ice-cold serial-killer who enjoys the pain of her own family and her friends and innocent people? How simple and naive and immature does a mind have to work in order to change from a once strong, intelligent and kind person into this, only by the talking of a stranger?

It's not about the killing-part only, I know that Merlin and Arthur aren't innocent in regard to this and that especially in medieval times, people were killed for reasons we would never understand today. But it's about Morgana not differing between friend and foe, family and strangers, guilty and innocent. It's about her incapability to love (yes, she used to do but not anymore - that's the point), the pleasure she takes in the pain and misery of others. And she is not working for a greater good but is totally and completely fixated on a certain idea of ruling in total power - alone. She doesn't care about magic anymore, she only cares about herself, because if she cared about magic to be restored and about sorcerers, she would have tried to side with Emrys and she would have tried to side with Arthur instead of stupidly killing his (and her own) father and by that turning Arthur against magic even more so. She only wanted to hurt both Uther and Arthur, no matter the consequences.

In regard to killing, there is a difference between killing someone either in self defence or when executing the law or in order to protect others, and killing (most of all innocents) just to gain power and to scare people, enjoying torturing, destroying a person both mentally and physically.

Morgana caused at least two wars, she helped turning an entire army of humans into immortals and by that killed them (thousands of them), she ripped Lancelot off of his soul, she took great pleasure in the cruel emotional, mental and physical breakdown and torment of her own father, killed her own father, constantly tries to kill her half-brother who has never done anything wrong to her, she tries to kill Gwen, her former best friend, Gaius, her former friend who had always protected and taken care of her, Merlin, his former trusted ally and friend, she turned Gwen into a deer only to see Arthur killing his one and only true love, she tortured Merlin, Elyan, Gwaine, she wanted to let Gaius starve to death, killed innocent people in the court only to hurt her father and to gain obidience, she didn't care about the countless innocent dead people (men, women, children) when Cenred's immortal army attacked Camelot, she wanted to let children starve only to gain the obiedience of the people, she unleashed the dorocha in order to have them kill and destroy everyone... I don't know what else is necessary to make everyone see that she is not just someone who thinks she is doing the right thing but that she is insane. What is necessary to realize that there is something going very wrong with someone (Morgana) when considering all this?

Personally, I don't care what she is wearing, but her smirking served a purpose. It was supposed to emphasize that she enjoys what she is doing, that she feels her power and feels surperior, that she has no compassion anymore and lost her conscience. The viewers were supposed to see that she has become fully evil - and no one becomes fully evil out of the blue or because someone tells you things about others. Arthur has enemies, too, but unlike Morgana, he doesn't take pleasure in their misery and pain and he doesn't feel the need to kill everyone. If Morgana was influenced to the point of disliking her former friends and to oppose them, fine. But not the way she does, a total malicious maniac.

When you are six years old and someone you trust tells you things about others, you most likely believe them. You most likely see the world in black and white and think that everything so simple, like "that person hurt me, that person must die. He hurt me because he is baaaad", instead of "that person tried to stop me from killing hundreds/thousands of people, his friends among them. I would have done the same if things were different".