User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Why are so many people taking Kara and Mordred's side?/@comment-4650675-20121216101956/@comment-5659316-20121216193805

Hey, I respect your opinon, and considering you're such a big fan of Morgana -and evidently would be pleased Mordred is helping her now- it doesn't surprise me. But some of your points you used to back it up are wrong.

'' Merlin tried to kill him back in season 2! And he has been shooting him evil stares throughout season 5. Not to mention that unbeknownst to him, Merlin has been wanting him dead for a very long time, without him doing something wrong. ''-Um. No. Yes, Merlin tried to help the guards kill him in season 2 (notice he wasn't trying to kill him directly), but he also saved his life in series 1 same as Arthur did, even though it was tearing him appart inside because of the Dragon's warning (and he doesn't really get credit for that), AND Mordred THREATENED him, saying he would never forgive or forget, then acted like he forgave him/forgot what he did all these years later. People shoot each other looks all the time, that doesn't count. And most of Merlin's plotting against him Mordred doesn't KNOW about. So he had no right to assume Merlin hated him just because he didn't want to be his best friend/didn't trust him as much as the knights did. If he's still holding the grudge from childhood, Mordred is the one at fault, because he claimed -pretty much- to have gotten over that. Also Merlin SAW that Mordred's alliances are shifty (look what he did to Morgana! And he turned on Arthur pretty dang fast over the whole Kara issue, without giving Arthur fair due for TRYING to spare Kara; Uther would have NEVER NEVER NEVER done anything like that. That was all Arthur being kind).

'' but some of the things she told Arthur, like how he kills and hunts magic, were not completely out of the blue. ''-What? They were TOTALLY out of the blue! Arthur doesn't hunt people with magic just because they have magic. He hasn't even tried to find Dragoon who he believes killed his father. He's in a state of war because of MORGANA. He doesn't go out of his way to hurt Druids. He ignores them mostly. If Kara said he acts like they're not his subjects same as people who don't have magic, I would have agreed, because he doesn't pay much attention to them and would be more hesitant to help them than others (but with the way he was raised, by UTHER, does this surprise anyone?); but that's NOT what Kara said. She accused him of being Uther 2.0 which is unfair to him. The Disir were out of line with him, and only pushed any treaty his words about the spirit of the shrine boy in season 4 might have resulted in out the window. Arthur KNOWS the Druids are peaceful, but people like Morgana, Kara, and the Disir are giving him the impression that they're all turning into crazied fanatics. They want their chance, but they won't give him one! (and no that stupid runemark doesn't count; that was wrong of the Disir to try and force him to bow to their goddess; if he accepts the Old Religion in Camelot, he doesn't have to follow it himself.) Arthur has been good and kind, while Morgana, during her time as a queen killed innocent people in front of the knights because they wouldn't submit, and wanted to make the subjects who still loved Arthur submit by starving their children. And if Kara thinks that's the way for peace, she's nuts. Kara was killed because she was a cold-blooded killer herself, not because she was a Druid.

''"If Gaius told him on Arthur when he was protecting Freya, he would probably hate Camelot as well..." ''-Dead wrong! Gaius DID tell on Merlin! To UTHER. If Freya hadn't run away on her own, if she had still been there, waiting for him to take her away, they probably would have been cornered by Uther/Arthur's men. As it happened, Merlin saw Arthur kill Freya (as a Bastet) -remember, too, Freya hadn't killed anyone on purpose, she wasn't a criminal, and Camelot wasn't really in a state of war then either- and he still didn't turn against Camelot.

Also, that would have been VASTLY different. Freya never influenced Merlin to kill/harm anyone. Kara would have been nagging at Mordred to hate Arthur till her last breath; and he would have had his mind changed by her eventually. Merlin had to protect Arthur from Mordred's mind being poisoned by a fanatic. I mean, whose side was he on when he was with Alvarr? If they hadn't been seperated, do you really think he wouldn't have still sided with Morgana over Arthur? Kara and Alvarr are very similar (I'm half-convinced they're RELATED, LOL).

''Anyway, I LOVED Kara. She was an AWESOME guest star ''- That's a matter of opinon, and you're more than welcome to yours. But I beg to differ in mine. Kara was protrayed by a good actress, and that was what made her tolerable. The actress was able to get across that even though she was fanatical and bordering on psycho, she could still show good emotions to Mordred (and pressumably other Druids). The character herself had little going for her. Unlike Morgana, who we saw struggle, we hear Kara mention in passing people she loved being killed (we don't even know if it was ARTHUR who did this, or else Uther... Unless it was the shrine boy raid, the time they thought Morgana was kidnapped, or the time with the crystal,  Arthur probably had nothing to do with it!), but aside from that we have no idea why she is such a cold-blooded killer. At least Morgana stuns people with magic before she moves in for the kill generally. But Kara just went nuts with those Camelot guards. She's as bad as Uther! He killed Druids because they were Druids, and she kills people of Camelot because they're of Camelot. How does that make her any better than him?