User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/My hopes for Howard Overman's writing on his new show/@comment-5102537-20130219110725/@comment-5102537-20130221220207

The point is that Regina, in the modern world, behaved differently from the evil queen in the fairytale world (and same goes for Mr.Gold/Rumple). No matter how evil Regina was, she was sane the whole time, very calculating and aware of the situation. As Regina in our world (modern world) she submitted to the social conventions as well as she could without running amok like Morgana did the entire time ever since season three of Merlin. Where Regina thinks things over and tries to change in the modern times, Morgana has neither the intention nor even the capability to change whatsoever. Morgana shows clear signs of a psychopath since she was totally immune towards sympathy and love she received from others, especially from Uther and Arthur.

Regina is not only capable of love but desperately looking for it. She wants to be loved by her mother and by Henry. Morgana rejected every sign of love from those she selected to be her enemies. Where Regina does evil things to serve her purpose, calculating and being aware of the consequences, Morgana acts totally nuts and hysterical, doesn't care at all about anyone or anything, with the exception of Aithusa. She convinced herself that the whole world is her enemy and she didn't do just anything for those of her kind. On the contrary, she abandoned her kind and only acted selfishly, for power.

For Regina, it isn't about power, which is obvious when she rarely used them in the modern world but only wanted to be with Henry until Emma showed up. For Morgana it was all only about power and the throne, about revenge on people who didn't even deserve her revenge. Regina changed and turned to evil when she thought she was betrayed and lost her lover due to this. Morgana turned to evil when Morgause influenced her and fueled her desire for power and obviously itensified her fear of being sentenced to death. When Morgana saw that Uther went broken and that he didnt hunt her down (and neither did Arthur, by the way) she should have realised at the latest that her fears and her hatred was superflouse. Yet she clinged to it and didn't care about reality but only about her insane emotions and paranoia.

As I said, I don't like Regina and she did some terrible things. But she isn't a mass muderer and she doesn't torture people, unlike Morgana who enjoys the pain and misery of others, even of her family and friends.