Arthur's Bane...
Oct. 18th, 2012 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
firthgalSo, I just watched the latest ep of Merlin, and for the briefest moment I had thought that Morgana named her dragon Uther. WHY, SHOW, WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO ME? I thought that I was finally over this ship. I thought that my heart was finally letting go, but then Morgana goes and makes me think that she named her dragon Uther, because she misses him like crazy and is still totally obsessed with him. DAMN YOU, SHOW. Of course, I can still glean Uther/Morgana subtext from the fact that Morgana has basically turned into him (just... wanting the annihilation of non-magic users instead of magic users). And she is still being driven mad over the fact that Uther loved Arthur more than he loved her (though, obviously this is just in Morgana's head seeing as how he became utterly useless and was driven mad when she left him). Basically, Uther/Morgana still rules my soul. Random biological relatedness and death be damned! My love survives it all.
I still wish the show had gone a different route with Morgana's evilness, though. Her just wanting the throne makes her look petty and selfish. Had Uther actually found out about her magic and then rejected her, her descent into evilness would have made sense. Wanting to plot the fall of the Pendragons would have been justified. She could have remained sympathetic instead of just looking completely batty. I don't see how making her biologically related to the Pendragons had to be what drove her over the edge. Uuuuuugh, I will never like that plot line. She could have still wanted the crown without being related to them. Uther got his position by overthrowing the previous king, he wasn't born royalty. It would have been nice to see that mirrored in Morgana's quest to take over Camelot.
Anyway, I think this ep just further proved that her motivation is Uther. His death didn't make the hurt go away. She still resents the crap out of Arthur because she felt like Uther loved him more than he loved her. It always goes back to Uther. I really, really wish that we could get a scene in the end where she finally sits on the throne and puts on the crown and she looks around at the empty room (now in shambles) and she flashes back to the way it used to be, to when the room was vibrant and full of smiling faces, and she focuses in on Uther and he gives her this loving smile and a nod and a tear falls down her face, and then she sees Arthur, his hair shining in the sunlight streaming through the window, his smile innocent, and that's when she realizes all that she has done, and then she ends up taking Arthur to the lake. Ooooooh, if only this show actually cared about Morgana's emotional arc!
I still wish the show had gone a different route with Morgana's evilness, though. Her just wanting the throne makes her look petty and selfish. Had Uther actually found out about her magic and then rejected her, her descent into evilness would have made sense. Wanting to plot the fall of the Pendragons would have been justified. She could have remained sympathetic instead of just looking completely batty. I don't see how making her biologically related to the Pendragons had to be what drove her over the edge. Uuuuuugh, I will never like that plot line. She could have still wanted the crown without being related to them. Uther got his position by overthrowing the previous king, he wasn't born royalty. It would have been nice to see that mirrored in Morgana's quest to take over Camelot.
Anyway, I think this ep just further proved that her motivation is Uther. His death didn't make the hurt go away. She still resents the crap out of Arthur because she felt like Uther loved him more than he loved her. It always goes back to Uther. I really, really wish that we could get a scene in the end where she finally sits on the throne and puts on the crown and she looks around at the empty room (now in shambles) and she flashes back to the way it used to be, to when the room was vibrant and full of smiling faces, and she focuses in on Uther and he gives her this loving smile and a nod and a tear falls down her face, and then she sees Arthur, his hair shining in the sunlight streaming through the window, his smile innocent, and that's when she realizes all that she has done, and then she ends up taking Arthur to the lake. Ooooooh, if only this show actually cared about Morgana's emotional arc!
