Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130810111259/@comment-5102537-20130814120624

Edrea wrote:

Would I take pleasure torturing my own father, the one who made my fake father died, and then w0uld not even want to acknowledge me to anybody because that would make him lose face and pride but always claimed that he loved me so much? Maybe...... I doubt that for a mentally sane person.

I get what you mean and this was what the show was trying to to sell to us, yet it wasn't plausible and believable.

When Morgana blamed Uther for Gorlois' death it was quite obvious that she only did it to manipulate him and to get him where she wanted him to be. You could see in Uther's reaction that he must have heard this accusiation from her for the very first time, and given that Morgana always said what she thought, she should have blamed him many times before. She obviously hadn't. Morgana's own facial expression and slight smirk showed well that she knew that she he had taken the bait and was now like a snowball melting in her hands. If she had really thought that Uther killed Gorlois, she would have mentioned it again, at some point during the show or, within the context of the show, at some point before we saw it in "To Kill the King". Gorlois' death and Uther's whatsoever part in it wasn't a subject for her before and never again after that. She never blamed him again, not even behind his back.

As for acknowledging her, Morgana knew very well that this would have dishonoured Vivienne, Gorlois, Igraine, Arthur, Uther and Morgana herself. Morgana's allegation that Uther just wanted to save face was actually rubbish because this was only a small part of would have aroused from acknowledging her. Remember, Vivienne had slept with three men: Morgause's father, Gorlois and Uther. What would have done this to her reputation, to the reputation and honour of Morgana's own mother? Gorlois would have looked like a fool, taking care of a child that wasn't his own, being married to a woman who had at least two other men aside from him. Morgana would have been the daughter of a woman who obviously wasn't satisfied with just one man and of a father who commited adultery. Arthur would have been the son of a father and king who committed adultery with his best friend's wife and he would have been the half-brother of an illegitimate child, and Igraine would have been the wife and the queen of a man and king who committed adultery with his best friend's wife, conceiving an illegitimate child. And on the top of it all, adultery was punishable by death,something which even applies to the king.

No matter what people (within the show or viewers in real life) ever thought of Uther and his actions, he would have been the biggest idiot to acknowledge Morgana as his daughter. In the dark ages, such things were literally a death sentence to almost everyone involved, in regard to reputation, society and also indeed their lives.

Plus, Uther had to rule a kingdom and couldn't risk an outrage only because of personal wishes and family drama. It was the absolute right thing to do to not tell anyone about Morgana, for everyone's sake.

It was a shame that the show didn't deal with it later when the secret was revealed. There is no way that the society as well as other kingdoms, probably even old friends of Gorlois and Vivienne would have simply accepted it just so without any consequences whatsoever.

Aside from that and despite the fact that Morgana hated Uther, she saw here in "The Tears of Uther Pendragon" how much he loved her and she saw it later when he even asked Gaius to use magic in order to heal her, the very thing that he feared and hated the most. And she saw it when he went broken and had a mental breakdown only because she hated him so much. Since he wasn't furious and tried to go after her but gave up his kingdom and his own life even though she was sorceress, there is no clearer evidence anymore for Morgana to finally make her see that Uther loved her more than his kingdom and his own life.