User blog comment:Fimber/Your views on Morgana before she "changed"?/@comment-5102537-20120629133906

Thanks everyone for your comments. I'm still not so sure about her intentions in To Kill the King but I tend to agree with all of you that she wanted to help Tom and didn't foresee the outcome. Still, there is a tiny little doubt, probably because of what has become of her and because of her manipulative and determined nature.

Morganaforever, I agree that glimpses of her dark side had already been visible in season one. I would have wished for a more moderate and believable description of her dark side instead of this comicstrip villain.

However, as we have discussed before, to me it was perfectly clear that in The Crystal Cave she lied when she claimed that Uther and Arthur were so important to her. At this point she was already filled with hatred and determined to destroy Uther and Camelot. She had already tried to drive Uther insane with the mandrake root and had caused a war that damaged Camelot. I think there is no doubt that she only wanted Uther to admit by reaching his heart with her "sweet" words again. And when she talked to Morgause, her determination to kill Uther was nothing new but I think she needed another justification for her hatred, and Uther being her real father was the most welcomed reason. She was totally blustering into her rage and hatred. I guess it would have even been enough if Uther had said that today she won't get a dessert and has to go to bed at 8 o'clock. You know what mean... Everything would have just fueled her anger, no matter what. I have to say again that when she overheard Uther talking to Gaius, the fact that he wanted to use magic in order to heal her should have cured her from her fear and hatred - in case she had heard it too.

I also have never believed her that her disagreement with Uther in regard to killing magical people had actually to do with compassion. Sure, in the beginning she surely felt compassion, but to me it was actually most of all her personal fight for power with Uther. "Daddy issues" as someone had called it before. She was rebellious and basically behaved like a teen during puberty, always challenging the adults/parents. I would have believed that she did it all for those who have or used magic of she wasn't the self absorbed villain she is now, someone who doesn't care about others and what her actions cause but who only cares about herself. But I did believe her that she really wanted to help Mordred since he was only a boy, magic or not. I guess this was one of the few honest things she had ever done or felt.

As for taking revenge for Gorlois, I don't believe that she really felt anger about this because when she left Uther after their conversation, she looked quite satisfied for having addressed Uther's conscience and for having hurt him by claiming that she felt that he was responsible for Gorlois' death. At that point of time she had already conspired with Tauren and what she told Uther was again nothing but manipulation. Given that Morgana had always spoken her mind and had always challenged Uther, one would assume that she would have broached that subject before in case she really thought that Gorlois' death was Uther's fault, but when she accused him, it was obvious that Uther had heard this accusation for the very first time. So I think that she knew that it wasn't his doing but used the situation to cause him a bad conscience.