Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130810111259/@comment-5674726-20160429185855

I don't think that Morgana was particularly torn when it came to Merlin, which is hardly surprising given that he poisoned her. I don't think that they were ever particularly close. I don't think that Merlin said a word to her between The Nightmare Begins and The Witch's Quickening, a period of her life that Morgana was sorely in need of support, as he well knew.

Unfortunately, they didn't delve enough into Morgana being torn between her friendship with Arthur and her belief that he should not be King, or her bond with Uther versus her fear and hatred of him because of his persecution of those with magic. Even with Guinevere, she doesn't seem to have had any qualms about plotting against her for no better reason than that she had had a vision of her as Queen.