User blog comment:Morganaforever/Why NOT to hate on Morgana/@comment-85.237.212.236-20121013125439/@comment-5102537-20121014140942

Hey Chris,

You wrote: "Yeah but a person who is psychologically or mentally ill cannot feel affection or tell enemies from allies"

Yes, they can. There are multiple mental disorders that allow the person to tell enemies from friends and to even feel affection for them. Most of the time the affection only lasts as long as those they feel for pleases them. Not to mention that Morgana has even lost the ability to tell friends from enemies since she always tries to kill those who would be her best allies and who used to love her. aPlease let me paste in here what the definition of a sociopath is:
 * Callous unconcern for the feelings of others. - (e.g. Uther, Arthur, Merlin, Gwen, Gaius, the knights, the people of Camelot, Cenred's army, Annis' army, Annis, Agravaine, Ruadan, Sefa...)
 * Gross and persistent attitude of irresponsibility and disregard for social norms, rules, and obligations. (no need to list it all, it's obvious)
 * Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, though having no difficulty in establishing them. (absolutely true, no relationship she had lasted because she is incapable of keeping people close due to her cruelness)
 * Very low tolerance to frustration and a low threshold for discharge of aggression, including violence. (no need to add anything, it's also obvious)
 * Incapacity to experience guilt or to profit from experience, particularly punishment. (definitely true, despite her experiences, she ignores what happened and what may result of her actions but deliberately does the wrong things, even if she herself gets hurt in the process)
 * Markedly prone to blame others or to offer plausible rationalizations for the behavior that has brought the person into conflict with society. (well, what can I say? "It's Uther's fault! - It's Merlin's fault! - It's Gaius' fault! - It's Gwen's fault! - It's everyone else's fault but mine that I've become what I'm now!")

It all totally applies to Morgana since season three. It even seems as if the writers had taken these symptoms in order to create Morgana's new character. I think you see now that she is being described as a sociaopath by the book.

I am not a hater. I think it's a shame that they made Morgana this way because she lost all credibility and has become an annying and boring villain that I can't take seriously anymore. It would be different if the show dealt with her mental illness in order to make the viewer see that there is something very wrong with her and that she needs help, alas the show only shows her pure evil side while making Uther responsible for it all at the same time without differing a bit and without pointing out that there is a whole different thing going on with her.

What makes me realise that she enjoyed the pain and misery of others? Well, it was totally unnecessary to have Gwaine fight against her men all the time only to give him rotten bread afterwards. The only purpose was to see him suffer. Her facial expression made it also very clear. Then, when she heard of Uther's injury, she said that she hopes that her face will haunt him in his death and will be the last thing that he sees. Total joy of Uther's misery. Everytime she put an evil plan into action, she smirked and felt good about it, also when turning Gwen into a deer. She enjoyed the idea of Arthur killing his own girlfriend. It's beyond me that you don't see this, to be honest.

No, she doesn't take good care of her allies, as we could see when she and Morgause turned an entire army, consisting of thousands of men, into the undead. She didn't care at all and she didn't care about Cenred's fate nor did she care about Agravaine who was totally devoted and loyal to her. Her affection for Aithusa doesn't surprise me. Aside from the fact that a dragon is a very powerful weapon, this dragon behaves more like a pet than like an intelligent creature with whom you can have a conversation. A lot of sociopaths have a great affection for pets/animals because they can't hurt them and/or are not a threat to them. Of course, there are also those sociopaths who torture and kill animals. The moment that Aithusa turns against her, her affection for her will be forgotten again once and for all.

As for Uther, it doesn't matter if she had already known that he was her father or not, the fact that he was and that she tried to kill him several times is a fact. Father or guard, never mind. Uther had apologised and had kept his promise and changed his attitude towards Morgana, he has proven what he was willing to do for her and she repaid it with constant attempts to kill him. At the end of season two she agreed with Morgause and was willing to have him and everyone else killed, and after she had learnt that he was her father, she wanted to kill him even more so (and indeed succeeded in the end).

She wasn't more humane in the past two epsiodes, on the contrary. Her desperation is merely an attempt to get allies in her fight and she is nothing but a hatred-filled killer-machine, willing to even sacrifice those of her kind. She has completely lost sight for reality and what's left is a hysterical, brutal, sadistical killer filled with hate. I think it's a pity.