Board Thread:Rewatching "Merlin" - Season Three/@comment-5102537-20130810111259/@comment-5102537-20130813114329

ReganX wrote: Selecasticon wrote:

ii) Gaius does not fear for Merlin's life even when Merlin points out Morgana knows pretty well he poisoned her. He looks annoyingly calm. I would expect him to tell Merlin to flee to Ealdor, or gain a private moment with Morgana. So much for what if, wouldn't you agree? There is a deleted scene from the episode where Merlin comes back to the physician's quarters after talking to Morgana in her chambers. Gaius wants him to leave the city and is starting to get supplies together when Merlin tells him that he's not leaving, and that Morgana forgave him. They reach the conclusion that, if Morgana was going to tell Uther, she would have done so already.

It's about a minute into this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBmHiXOhXA I often thought some of the deleted scenes shouldn't have been deleted.

However, if Morgana had told Uther that Merlin poisened her, she would have admitted that she was the vessel for the sleeping-disease. This could have made Uther suspicious as to why Morgause used Morgana, her own half-sister, instead of somebody else and why Morgana met with her in the first place. It would have been a risk for Morgana too because she could have thought that Uther might have thought that Morgana was a risk for entire Camelot when she Morgause had such an easy time to get a hold of Morgana, the one who is so close to the king and a member of the royal household. It was better to simply pretend that she had no idea what was going on whatsoever. This way she could avoid unpleasant questions, like where Morgause had met Morgana, what she said, where she is now, what kind of spell she used and so on. The more questions, the greater the risk that Morgana reveals something that could bring her into a dangerous situation.

I agree, Aithusa, Morgana thought that Uther would hate her once he learnt of her true nature. However, she always claimed that he didn't love her at all, not even while he thought she was a normal woman and not a sorceress. On the other hand, both Morgause and Morgana had planned on Uther's deep love for her when Uther risked his kingdom for Morgana and cried when she returned (they needed his tears for the spell). So they knew - which contradicts what Morgana said in "The Fires of Idirsholas" when she told Morgause that she thought at first that Uther cared for her but now she knows that he doesn't care for anyone.

So she either was convinced that he didn't love her, thus couldn't plan that he would cry when she returns and would sacrifice half of his army for her - or she knew that he loved her. Both things at the same time are impossible.

When Merlin told Morgana in the vaults that she was the only one who could ever change Uther's mind, Morgana ignored this fact, even though she should have known that Merlin was right. Morgana had it in her power to change Uther but she didn't even want that. Instead of showing him the opposite of what he believed she did everything in her powers to strengthen his hatred for magic by all her evil plans that contained magic and destruction. Sometimes it even seemed as if she enjoyed seeing him hating magic even more. Since she was described as a very intelligent person in season one, they turned her into a more stupid mad woman later who deliberately worked towards her own doom. Shame.