User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Why are so many people taking Kara and Mordred's side?/@comment-1208713-20121221174754/@comment-5659316-20121222013858

Well, to be fair, Morganaforever, Morgause came from behind and ATTACKED Merlin, he and Gaius were defending themselves. If Morgana had spent less time threatening knights and shooting innocent people in Camelot to make them submit instead of trying to get them to LIKE her (I honestly believe, in spite of their loyalty to Arthur/Uther, if she had been more like her season 1 self, who gave out food to the hungry and was kind, they would have been more torn/reasonable, whereas her approach just made them adamant that they would serve only Arthur/Uther), and a little more time watching the cup of life, maybe she would have been able to prevent Merlin from coming close to knocking it over, or at least been there WITH her sister and helped her.

And even that aside, Morgana didn't HAVE to kill her sister. She was gravely injured, but she wouldn't have died for SURE. She was obviously well enough to survive, under Morgana's care, the time-gap between series 3 and series 4. Even as she was weakening, it really seemed to me that rather than live uncertainly, not knowing when her injuries would do her in, she wanted to give her life so Morgana could have power and make herself queen again. Which was nice of her, in a sisterly way, but then Morgana no longer has the right to blame her choice on Merlin and then try to use him to kill Arthur. Let's say the show was modern, for argument's sake, and Morgause was in a car and (because she didn't want Merlin to reach his destintion) tried to run his car off the road and got herself in an accident, which put her in a state that put her on life-support. Would it be fair, even if Morgana had resentment for Merlin driving the other car, for her then to unplug her sister, blame him for ALL the factors of her death, then force him to go into a car again and kill somebody else because she didn't like them? That's exactly what she did in Servant of Two Masters, forcing him to kill Arthur. There was no logic in that, just revenge. And even that was overlookable, viewing that he sort of fell into her lap and she didn't go out and hunt him down for that; yet in The Hollow Queen, she used the fact that he would want to help a child (WITH MAGIC!) who was desperately ill to lure him to his slow death.

And yes, apologizing for the Druids does not get Arthur off the hook, but while not fully repealing the laws against magic, he did keep his word; he judged Kara as a PERSON who killed another, not a creature of magic. And if Morgana apologized it wouldn't make her sins go away, but it would be a START which is what Morgana prevents in Arthur. He starts to show kindness and understanding towards people with magic and Morgana does something stupid like kidnap his wife.

Also, notice since Uther's death, raids against Druid camps are almost non-exsistant on Arthur's part. In fact, all three of the raids we know Arthur was in were under Uther's influence.

1) When he thought Morgana was kidnapped. I think that speaks for itself. He thought his father's ward was being held hostage. He went to rescue her, under Uther's orders and because he loved her, because she was his friend.

2) The thing with the magic crystal. Again, Uther ordered Arthur to go and get it back. He thought he was protecting Camelot.

3) The only truly INTENTIONALLY CRUEL raid we know Arthur was involved in, that killed the shrine boy. He was young, wanted to prove himself to his father, no doubt, and he wasn't prepared for his men to ignore the order to spare the women and children after years of Uther never having them do that. He should have spoken up when he realized this, but in all the confusion, and being foolish/prideful, possibly too ashamed, he didn't. He apologized for this, and as far as we know never repeated those actions.

On the other hand, Morgana kills people left right and center and rarely if ever apologizes. She attacks Camelot, tries to kill Arthur (her own brother!), brainwashes and poisons Arthur's manservant who was the very first friend she had who kept her magic a secret, doesn't care how many children or women in Camelot starve or get killed... In series 3, when Merlin expressed saddness over people dying, Morgana actually replied with "Good!"

How is all the killing Morgana's done (more often to defend herself, and AFTER Morgause was dead, no longer influencing her as Uther influenced Arthur, rather than her 'people', seeing as she has no problem claiming Alator and Finna -and anyone else who doesn't think she's a good queen, that Merlin/Emrys is in the right- are traitors and killing them) okay because she 'thinks she's doing right', but Arthur's fighting to defend his kingdom gets all the flack?