Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20141111205211/@comment-5772693-20141207193806

I'm not a big Uther fan, but I agree with ReganX on this. I do not believe he would have killed Morgana. He wasn't a particularly good father (in my opinion), but I don't think he would kill one of his kids. He was even willing to use magic himself to save Morgana in 'The Crystal Cave'.

I think that while a lot of the time Uther was rather oblivious, he was still a smart man, and if Morgana's Sight could not be suppressed then he would make use of it. Particularly since a lot of Morgana's visions focused on Arthur, if he had a way to guarantee Arthur's success and safety I believe he would use it.

This does muddy things on Morgana's end though. On one hand it would probably relieve her that she was exempt from execution, but honestly Morgana kind of reminds me of this kids book I read, 'Give a Mouse a Cookie'. The idea of the story is if you give the mouse what he wants he'll just ask for something else, never content with what he has and always ready to ask for more. By the end of the story the kid who gave the mouse the cookie has run around all day doing what the mouse wants, and you know that the same thing is going to happen the next day.

Morgana is my favorite character on this show, so when I say this I'm not hating on her or anything, I just don't think I ever read her as content, and I honestly don't know what would make her so. I don't think that Uther not executing her would make her a devoted cheerleader for Camelot.

I think she would probably be a lot less evil, and maybe support Arthur more, but I've generally gone with the idea that no matter what, Morgana would join Mordred in a war against Camelot. She might have tried to discourage a war or have taken Arthur to the lake in the end if things had been different, though. Killed less people, that kind of thing.