User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on Merlin's finale/@comment-4892425-20121229011418

@Morganaforever - you want to cheer for this monster, fine; just don't try to whitewash her crimes. Queen Annis said it best (4 x 4): she was a WITCH (boy I loved how Annis leveled that epiteth at Morgana). I take it "witch" means low-rent magic slinger for the time. Morgana let herself get "devoured by hate" (another Annis quote - 5 x 2); she embraced vicious and crazy willingly like a long-lost lover and took it out on the world as if the lover betrayed her. She had a reign of terror where she spilled blood with fiendish glee, but she had sooo many miscalculations and straight-up dumb moves where the character has earned the tag "cartoon villain" at various sites on the internet. (You can throw up every other characters' missteps and bad moves; it still doesn't cancel out Morgana's bad judgment that led to her end.)  Even how she went out was so stupid:  her arrogance did her in more than Merlin. Did she really think Emyrs would not come this time with a weapon capable of bringing her down? I think even the writers painted her into the corner of forget-redemption so for expediency they took her out in such an ignoble way. The last of the High Priestess - stabbed like a common mugging victim.