Talk:Morgana Pendragon/@comment-92.72.92.238-20121104083121

I really like her character (definitely one of my favorites since season 1) and I still see lots of potential in her character development, but in my opinion she is misdirected by the writers. Something that would earn her more fans back would be, to make her less evil.

Yes, that sounds strange, but what I mean is that right now it is too black and white. Scenes like Merlin healing her with the Dragon's spell because he regretted hurting and possibly killing her, only to regret it later are scenes that I enjoyed a lot. What I would like to see are episodes where Arthur is doing something questionable that Merlin absolutely disagrees with (something involving magic and/or maybe Aithusa) and Morgana tries to stop Arthur, making it hard for Merlin to decide what is the wrong or right thing to do. Scenes that make her only look "evil" from Arthur's view, and really only Arthur's/Camelot's (without maybe Gaius and Merlin) view. Maybe a third party that is neither on Morgana's nor Arthur's side is needed.

Right now, even Mordred is supposedly devastated to see how Morgana changed and that is too one-dimensional imo. I think she needs scenes that make it more easier for the viewer to sympathize with her. Yes, there are already reasons that explain why she is the way she is, but she is too "evil" right now to make her sympathetic. I guess I want it to be similar to A Song of Ice and Fire. Since that story is told from different POVs and thus there is less black and white painting, you can choose which side you are on and that wouldn't hurt this series.

These kind of ambiguous scenes perhaps could build up for the finale in which Merlin at the end has to choose to stay with Arthur or join Morgana. It would be reeaaallly interesting to see what would happen if Merlin actually did join her and we'd see him next season from the other side, acting like a Morality Pet. Of course at the end of the story arc he and Arthur will be best buddies again and forgive each other.