Talk:Morgana Pendragon/@comment-124.184.73.224-20130122064712/@comment-5102537-20130827100703

I think they really messed up with the age and the time spans in the show. I don't know where it was but Katie McGrath once said that Morgana is older than Arthur. This would fit with what Uther told Katrina:

TROLL(CATRINA) ''How wonderful it is to sit here with you, Uther. It is a terrible thing to find oneself alone in the world, suddenly, cruelly alone.''

UTHER When Ygraine died, I feared I'd never recover.

UTHER But then as time passed, I've become used to being alone.

and when she tried to kiss him

UTHER It's been a long time since Ygraine...since anyone...

Sounds like he was never with another woman after Igraine.

Given that Arthur was at least 20 years old and turned 21 in season one when becoming crowned prince, Merlin and Morgana both must have been three years younger than him if Merlin and Morgana were the same age and around eighteen. This is also quite unlikely because when Arthur was one year old, Kilgharrah had already been captured and the dragons being wiped out - which means that Balinor was already on the run and surely didn't come back to have a night with Hunith in order to conceive Merlin. If Merlin was conceived approx. a year before Balinor had to flee due to the Great Purge, Arthur would be a year older than Merlin and if Morgana and Merlin were the same age, Uther would have had an affair with Vivienne only a few months after Igraine's death, which would be quite unlikely too, given that Vivienne obviously had magical powers and that Uther surely had other things in mind during the Great Purge than sleeping with his best friend's wife. Let alone that I doubt that Gorlois was at the Northern Plains during the Great Purge.

Remember, Merlin never met his father until "The Last Dragonlord" and Balinor didn't even know that he had a son. So Merlin was conceived shortly before Balinor had to hide which happened after he had helped Uther capture the dragon - and the entire war against the dragons lasted only a year at most, given that Uther said in the very first episode that twenty years ago, the great dragon was captured. And only a few episodes later (maybe weeks in their time) Arthur was coming of age (21). The Great Purge and the hunt for dragons started shortly after Arthur's birth.

Is the transcript authentic and verified? If so, they obviously didn't give it all much thought in the beginning when they later introduced both Katrina and Balinor. I'm also surprised that they even played with the thought of Merlin and Morgana being attracted to each other because within the show, there wasn't anything that pointed into that direction. Maybe they intended to give them some kind of an interest in each other but left the idea very quickly.