User blog comment:Knightofthecart/Morgana has turned her back/@comment-4814726-20120318005703

To make up for my comment below, I'll make one that is actually relevant. I think Morgana truly turned her back on her friends at the beginning of series 3, (technically in between 2 and 3) Which is when she leaves Merlin to die, threatens to kill him, TRIES to kill him, tries to kill Uther, Gwen, Arthur, DOES kill a guard, TWICE, etc. In the Fires of Idirsholas, I don't think Morgana actually knew about the spell. Sure she suspected when people started passing out around her, but I don't think she KNEW exactly what was going on. See, i don't really blame her for going against Uther, I would too he is a JERK(for lack of more appropiate but obscene word). So I don't really condemn her actions in that episode, or when she steals the crystal of neahtid with alvarr and mordred.There she is really just trying to save her people from persecution and make Camelot a better place. What i do condemn is when she goes against her friends and tries to kill innocent people just to get at uther. She is the king's ward, it cannot be that hard to just kill him instead going through the Lower Town and random people in the citadel including her friends. (Did not understand the great dragon's rampage either. When i saw uther standing by the window watching the dragon, i was thinking "hey lizard! Why don't you just bust through the window and kill the guy instead of attacking random people in the city you don't even know? Oh! AND trying to kill the once and future you've been helping AND one or more of the future knights of the round table?") Being poisoned and brought back by Morgause completely changed her, like having a stroke or recovering from a brain tumor. because her views changed drastically. Before, she would be helping the Lower Town in times of need by stealing foods from the noble kitchens, and standing up to uther when he made bad decisions e.g. killing random people for less than saying the 'm' word. (magic) She cares about the poor, and she cares passionately about doing what is right, and she has that strong feeling in her heart of what is right and is wrong. (its called a conscience) But once she gets back in the next series, she has lost her conscience. Which I think is because of brainwashing from her sister for a year, being brought from the brink of death, and being poisoned by someone she called a friend(maybe even a future lover? mergana fans?) Brainwash, betrayal, stroke = loss of conscience. She just betrays, kills, glares, smirks, poisons, stabs, tricks, left right front and center on everyone she ever knew. She dont care about poor people anymore, she thinks they are expendable, including servants( she now refers to Merlin as, "S4 E. 6" nameless boy who Arthur is "strangely fond of" ) and she does not stand for morale any more, she just stands for herself and getting what she wants. If she really wanted to be the queen just to free her people, she would have lifted the ban on magic when she got the throne in S4 E. 12, but instead she decides to burn all of subjects' crops, who some, may or may not have been sorcerers in hiding.