User blog comment:Morganaforever/The people of Camelot/@comment-5102537-20120604162758/@comment-4650675-20120604185300

I think that in medieval societies people mostly feared magic and witches because of the Church's brainwashing. Maybe Uther did that, instead of the Church, since such thing does not exist in the Merlin universe, or is not mentioned to exist anyway. Also, people did not completely ignore magic, since in the episode "Love in the Time of Dragons" many citizens of Camelot still used it whenever they got sick, and who knows when else. Also, I think that they used it way more than that, since Morgana called Uther's kingdom "corrupted" in the episode "To Kill the King". In my opinion, she knew that they used magic for bad reasons, but never told Uther because the season 1 Morgana would never tell the people of Camelot on Uther.

I actually do not see many differences between Uther and Morgana's reign and stance towards the people. Sure, Uther did not kill everyone indiscriminately, but we did not know what he did when he conquered Camelot. Or what he did in order to force the kingdom to accept him. His methods have never been peaceful after all. We can assume that he did the same, or maybe worse things than Morgana in order to force the people to serve him. After all, the main idea on series 4 was that Morgana has become another Uther, as suggested by Queen Annis and even Arthur. I also do not think she did any actions for fun. The people she killed where necessary sacrifices for her. Many tyrrants have followed the same tactics in the past after all. Besides, we do not know how much the human life valued in the Medieval times, since Merlin, the good guy, kills so many people in every episode, so someone who kills many people to achieve his goal is not necessarily a psychopath. However, I do agree with you that I would like the reason that the people of Camelot love Arthur so much to be exploeed.

On a final note, I would like to thank you for commenting on two of my blog posts! I think you will most enjoy the one I'm preparing for Morgana as well.