User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-4650675-20120620181541

I think I agree with Aithusa07. Morgana can tell who is friend and who is foe. She can also love. All those hugs and compassionate moments with Morgause as well as her reluctancy to kill her prove that. And if not only that, then definitely the fact that, even after being fully evil (as the smirks confess) she still gave her "family" (Uther and Arthur) a chance. However, Uther abandoned her to her eyes by not accepting her. She was willing to give up everything but he just did not accept her. He wanted to be a perfect king with no flaws and illegitimate children, so he hid her from the world and instead called her his ward. I'm sure that if someone has been lying to you for more than 20 years, has locked you up in dungeons, has threatened you and later you find out he is your father, then if you are able to still forgive him and go back then you are definitely not a psychopath; on the other hand it shows immense compassion and love. In series 3 Morgana still had that love and I think that it can't have disappeared in series 4.

Now about Morgause, it's not like Morgana listened to her and blindly believed her. She had proof. Her best friend and Arthur's servant had tried to kill her, and she did not know she was the source of Morgause's enchantment, since she thought that it was all a dream. It's obvious that if on one side you get poisoned and you fear about your gifts but on the other side they love you and care for you, accepting you for who you are then you will definitely choose the other side. Morgause became Morgana's only family and friend, so it makes sense why she trusted her completely. And that also justifies her cruel methods in series 4; Morgause gave up her life for Morgana to get the throne. It is obvious that Morgana should do ANYTHING to get to that, not only for herself or for freeing magic but also for her sister. And that, as well as the value of life in medieval times and Morgana's strong character may justify all those killings for a sane person. But about the immortal army I kind of have an objection, because it's not like she, or Cenred or Morgause forced them to. They willingly stepped up and chose to become "zombies", and later Merlin completely killed them all.

On a side note, there are villains that are way more maniacal than Morgana. Let's take Nimueh, who is a perfect example of a psychopath candidate. Why? Well, she has no bonds and allies and values life way less than Morgana. Just in order to take her revenge on one person, she poisoned the waters killing MANY innocent citizens, tried to kill innocents with the cup, like Hunith, and would also kill Merlin because he did not want to be her ally. She used a wraith, killed innocent knights just to get to Uther EVENTUALLY, even if all the knights of Camelot volunteered before Arthur. She smirked a lot about what she did too. And she appeared in less than 5 episodes! Well, in those episodes she has killed as many people as Morgana in her lifetime, so I think she deserves that title a bit more.