User blog comment:Morganaforever/Thoughts on "Morgana's Death"/@comment-5465618-20121213180151/@comment-5674726-20121214001528

''I think in the case of Morgana her powers should be taken away from her. She has misused her powers --so she does not deserve to have magic.''

If we're comparing Morgana's situation with Xena's, Xena didn't lose her skills as a warrior, she put them to better use than she had in the past and atoned for her past crimes by helping and protecting those in need of help and protection. The first episode sees her burying her weapons, ready to walk away from her life as a warrior, and then minutes later, coming upon people who required her help. In Morgana's case, I think that, for everybody's sake, not least her own, she needs to atone by taking the power she has used to hurt people and using it to help them instead.

As for punishment and humiliation, let's forget about Morgana's side of the equation for the moment and ask ourselves if we want to see Arthur inflicting pain and humiliation on his sister, or Merlin doing the same to an enemy who has always been set at a disadvantage, in terms of power, support and knowledge? Do the writers see Arthur and Merlin as the kind of people who would do this, or do they see them as better than that?