User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/In the end,Morgana could have become good!/@comment-5102537-20130104153513/@comment-5674726-20130104182016

I wish the show runners would have chosen to describe her believable and as a human being instead of showing us a crazy super-villain.

I think that they could have had a fantastic storyline on their hands if they'd had Morgana as an anti-villain, somebody who opposes Uther and Arthur and who wants to change things but who isn't going to use mass slaughter to get her way.

What if, when Morgause provided her with an immortal army to take over Camelot, the takeover was accomplished without innocent citizens being killed? Knights who refuse to swear allegiance to the new Queen of Camelot could be exiled. Instead of chaining Uther in a dungeon, she could have made a point of taking the high road and, if he is imprisoned, keeping him in his quarters. She could make it clear to the people of Camelot that she has no intention of harming anybody and there are certain things that could make people more amenable to the new regime.

For one thing, given that she had an army that doesn't need to be fed, paid or to have their armour kept in perfect repair, she could lower taxes considerably.

Tristan seemed to consider that the taxes were high enough that he had to be a smuggler. In Beauty and the Beast, Arthur stated that the majority are barely able to get by. According to Arthur, these taxes are for the protection of the people of Camelot so, if Morgana's immortal army can provide the same service at a greatly reduced price, people would only need to pay a fraction of the taxes that were previously required of them.

She could also legalise magic, and use it for things like improving the crop yields, which would be great at first but could lead to problems further down the line, especially if other magic users start to flock to Camelot. I'd say that Season One and Two Morgana could potentially have been able to balance the interests of magic users and those without magic but, by Season Three, it's probable that her reign would have led to a bias in favour of those with magic.

They could have had shades of grey instead of black and white, and left it up to viewers to decide if Merlin was right to continue to fight for Arthur and the dream of Albion, or if the best thing he could do was to leave Morgana to it.