Board Thread:What If?/@comment-69.148.49.98-20140113232611/@comment-5102537-20140406121533

Areanna123 wrote:

I think it's really about your interpretation of the characters, whether you think they would be good together on not. Do you see Merlin as a hero and Morgana as a bloodthirsty monster? Merlin as an arrogant obsessive jerk and Morgana as a freedom fighter? Are they very similar, or are they completely opposite in every way? Do opposites attract, or do birds of a feather flock together?

Who knows for sure?

Either way it probably would have ended in tragedy.

I agree with you, Areanna123.

Merlin wasn't a hero to me anymore the moment he thought he grew up but became selfish and callous instead. However, I didn't see him as an arrogant jerk either. Neither was Morgana a freedom fighter, though she should have become one. Alas the showrunners made her a psychopath.

I'd say Merlin and Morgana are the opposite to each other. Merlin wanted to save Camelot, Arthur and his friends whereas Morgana tried to destroy them. They also differentiated in the way they tried to achieve their goals, despite Merlin's later questionable actions. What they had in common was that neither of them later cared for their kind anymore. However, while Morgana even used her fellow magic-users and actively killed them when they were either of no use anymore or in her way, Merlin most of all ignored them or wanted them out of the way whenever they threatened Arthur (Mordred, for example).

Both didn't care about freedom for magic-users but only for themselves, or in Merlin's case, for who he loved. The biggest difference between them was the very fact that Morgana enjoyed the misery of others (shame the show turned her into such a mad and evil character!) whereas Merlin, once he became more callous and indifferent, simply didn't care about the misery of others. The only exception in his case was when he enjoyed hurting Uther as a spirit. But on every other opportunity, Merlin just lost sight of what was going on around him when he focused on Arthur only.

Morgana's sadism differentiated her from pretty much everyone on the show, except maybe Sarrum who obviously was a sadist, too. What a waste on such a great former character (Morgana, I mean, not Sarrum).

Anyway, I never saw them as a potential couple, but it was a shame that the show had destroyed their friendship. They would have made a great team, even when often opposing each other. I see it similar to the former"relationship" between Merlin and Uther. Even though they opposed each other in many ways they had the same goal, which was protecting Camelot, Arthur and Morgana (Morgana up until she was turned into a psycho). Both were willing to give up their life for them (and so was Arthur). It could have been that way with Morgana and Merlin, too.

Merlin After wrote:

" I think Merlin wished that too. He does say, after all, "I blame myself for what you've become." "

Although I liked that Merlin took responsibility for something and that, for once, it wasn't only Uther who was held responsible, I disagreed with his remark. True, Merlin could have helped Morgana. On the other hand, Morgana was always released of her own doings throughout the entire show. It was always someone else who was supposed to be responsible for her turn to the evil side but for some reason it was never her own fault. We had Morgause, Uther and Merlin and several events that somehow absolved her from whatever she did. At first it was Uther who made her so evil, then people speculated if it was Morgause who brainwashed her (and I would have liked that idea) and then it was Merlin, Merlin poisoning her, then Arthur not lifting the ban of magic, then everyone supposedly betraying her and sometimes it was all of it and all of them together - but never was it Morgana's own responsibility. Neither on the show nor in the opinion of her fans.

That's what bothers me a lot. The only plausible explanation for her change would have been either an enchanment or a brainwash by Morgause. Every other attempt of an explanation didn't work for me, simply because Morgana was a different character in the first two seasons. There was the potential for turning to the darker side, yes. She was always walking on thin ice, starting with her first attempt to kill somebody in season one. However, Morgana completely losing it all of a sudden and completely forgetting about the love she had for some people and turning into a mass murdering psycho didn't make any sense whatsoever.