Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130810111259/@comment-4623180-20130814053205

That had me thinking for a while, the fact that Morgana and Morgause had all plotted and anticipated the moment Morgana would enter Camelot. Their plots, all inside ones, only went one-way, and that was a long as Uther fully trusted Morgana. In particular collecting Uther's tears required true love from Uther to be expressed. But as stated Morgana didn't think Uther was a good father and could show true love (it wasn't said but would previously have seemed obvious). Like the way he had chained her up and grabbed her by the neck before, and tried to execute her maiden and so on. They took a big risk allowing Morgana to enter Camelot and having people buy her story. Especially since Uther knew Morgause was Morgana's half sister. It's as if everyone completely forgot about Morgause and suddenly Morgana was just held captive by bandits. Sooo.. did anyone question for what reason? Morgause is a high priestess, very smart and cunning, obviously she would make good use of Morgana.

I am guessing the most appropriate answer about extracting the tears in particular would be that they considered many ways to do it- even if it involved rubbing an onion on Uther's eye while he slept, ha. But the bigger question is that Uther was so blind to Morgause. Overall the writing hurt the characters in the series. If it were realistic Camelot would've been destroyed LONG before Merlin was even born.