User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-5102537-20120620234426

No, the Lurker in the Woods (LOL) wasn't me.

I get the feeling that we should have saved our conversation for your upcoming blog post on Morgana :-D When you have finished it, there is barely anything new I could add...

Hmm, Morgana is popular among many fans. I think the majority of viewers are the younger ones and a supposedly "strong" and extreme female character attracts especially younger female fans, for she serves as a kind of a role model. A very questionable one, though. Most of my friends and aqquaintances can't stand her anymore or have lost their interest because she has become too one-dimensional ( I was born in 1975). But that's not the point, there will always be characters that are liked as well as disliked.

In The Crystal Cave I believe that you have fallen for her acting skills... To me it was absolutely clear that she did nothing but manipulating Uther. She lied the moment she opened her mouth and wanted him to confess in order to have something against him that she can use. You are the first one I "met" who really believed what she told Uther. Moreover, she had tried to kill him before she got injured. Why should she have forgiven him when she had been hating him for years and tried to kill him? The fact that she overheard him saying that he was her father could have never made her change her mind, on the contrary. The only thing I was wondering about was the fact that she completely ignored his request to use magic. That should have been enough for her to see things clearly, but instead the only thing that was of interest for her was the fact that she thought she had a right to the throne. And honestly, how could Uther's secret (being her real father) ever be enough reason for her to totally go nuts and kill everyone?

History is full of dictators, psychopaths, tyrants, crazy leaders who were convinced that they had the right to carry their own disappointments and angers into the world and let thousands of people die, sometimes for the so called Greater Good when it was actually only about themselves and their screwed lives and minds. Millions of people had died for the supposedly Greater Good that those insane and/or bad leaders had claimed to know. They used it to justify their intentions and to manipulate and convince the people in order to go to war or to commit their holocausts. Some even believed their own words.

And again I have to say that all those reasons, all of Morgana's disappointments and issues can never be enough to become a mass murder who enjoys the misery of others. And Morgana did that indeed, I don't know why you think she didn't. She was satisfied and happy when she heard the bad news about Uther and also Arthur and even wished even more pain and misery on them. She enjoyed Gwaine's uneven fight against a dozen of her soldiers as well as Elyans screams when she tortured him. She also enjoyed the idea of having Gwen killed by the hands of Arthur when she turned her into a deer. I don't really see why you think she didn't enjoy it when it was intentionally made very obvious. And why did she want her father dead when he was already completely beaten and on the ground and when he couldn't be a threat for her (in her twisted mind though) anymore? She showed no mercy towards him and she also wanted to destroy and hurt Arthur by his father's death. Her only pleasure consists only of hurting others, she actually consists of it with every beat of her heart and with every cell of her body.

What you said that in a way she didn't kill her father, is to me yet another hint for her mental illness, because she did indeed kill her father but in her twisted mind she maybe denies it, in case you are right with your theory. If she doesn't deny him as her father, it's the same, it all leads to the one thing: she killed her own father. And if she denied him, she couldn't claim the throne in her opinion. But she does. When she told Annis that she came in the name of Gorlois and what she is, she is all because of him, she just used him to get Annis on her side because she didn't want to be compared to Uther, but the fact that she obviously feared that someone could compare her to him showed clearly that she knows very well what she is doing and that her actions are cruel. What she does is the way she saw Uther. Heaven knows why... She is in total denial but yet knows what she does, up and down, left and right.... Nuts.

What she said to Merlin about loyalty was yet another excuse and lie. Why doesn't she have anyone to be loyal to? Because she doesn't want to have anyone to be loyal to and she doesn't want friends and social connections. The link that was posted by the Lurker/anonymous user describes it well.

And I too doubt that she really loved Morgause or the other way around. They were sisters-in-arms and had the same goal. There was a bond but it wasn't love to me. Mentioning her in the epsiode towards Merlin as well as comparing Arthur to Uther was also another try to blame everyone else but herself. It's the whole world's fault but not hers...This can also be found in the link (thanks, by the way).

I agree, I enjoy the discussions too :-)