Re: Morrigan -- she's actually the reason why I have such a low tolerance for abject assh*le characters. As a completionist eternally afraid of missing content or character development, I have a too-long history of putting up with characters that don't interest me or flat-out repulse me, "just in case". But Morrigan was just so vile from the word go, so utterly without any redeeming moments or features, that I told myself "never again, I'm through with this BS". What makes her worse than any other assh*le character is the fact that she gets forcibly rammed down my throat over and over. At least most other characters can be avoided or ignored. (Thankfully. Having the whole cast of characters as mandatory, no matter how much they are at odds with the protagonist or each other, annoyed me to no end in some of the older games).
I don't know about that.
I think that's all she knows how to act like.
Her dialogue with Cole has been getting really interesting.
You make a good point. Unfortunately, for me that's too little and too late. I only heard those lines in the banter collection video, because the one time I took her out for a spin was enough to make me bench her permanently. Early impressions matter, and I simply don't have the stomach to coddle and fawn over assh*le characters at the expense of both my own character and (even more importantly) the other companions for most of a game in the vague hope that, maybe, eventually, something or someone will reveal some shred of decency in the insufferable person. IMO a save-the-world, band-of-brothers-and-sisters gig is no place for people who are blatantly not interested in being team players.
I had the inverse impression.
By the end of the game I saw what Solas truly was, a hypocrital liar who all he wanted was the orb, the Breach happened because of his mistakes, he didn't join the Inquisition to reapair the damage he had done, but to fulfill his ambitions. His scene with Flemth show how far he will go to complete his plans, even passing over his "friends" , if the Inquisitor goes against him, he will try to kill him/her.
Yeah, the post-credit scene torpedoed my impression of the character big time and actually made me lose pretty much all interest in him. I rather like Solas, the person we see during the game itself, but the "Dread Wolf" is big-time bad news, and while I do believe he joined us with a genuine desire to help, he certainly didn't do so in good faith ... and I immediately asked myself how much useful knowledge he withheld from us. (For the record, I also believe Vivienne isn't exclusively in it for herself.)
The irony in this situation is that as soon as I watched that cutscene, I realized that it might well have been my Inquisitor's own refusal to give up, her stated belief in getting up and trying again no matter how hard a task is, that played no small part in kicking Solas out of his it's-all-hopeless slump and prompting him to set his new plan in motion ...
Still. Solas was lot more trustworthy and authentic in my book, partly for the reasons I already stated but also because he's more ... how to put this, emotionally honest? Odd as that statement is, in the light of his lies. But what I mean is that despite the fact that he's clearly one of the characters who hold themselves apart more, he does show significantly more of his emotions than Vivienne does, and he does it in a way that made me believe they are genuine. Meanwhile, Vivienne had basically only a single "mode" that she stuck to like a broken record: condescension, that never-wavering impression that everyone and everything is forever beneath her. Even when she, say, shows interest in Varric's stories, it's just because she thinks it'll make her look good (i.e. formidable and intimidating). Maybe it's true that years or decades of "playing the Game" at a very high level hardened or crippled, depending on your POV, her so much that she's more or less incapable of being genuine ... but that doesn't make her any more sympathetic.
Not every character needs to be buddy-buddies with the protagonist and each other. I could accept a character who has a "this is all just business" mentality and does not fraternize -- as long as they're respectful and decent to those around them and have moments where we can see what moves them instead of being stuck in the same emotion or lack of emotion for almost the whole time.
To me, her friendship is one of the strongest in this game,
Interesting how impressions can differ. 
I never saw any spark of friendship, and felt as if whatever concern she showed was not for the Inquisitor as a person but a crucial tool that musn't be allowed to fail ... and that concern never came without her mandatory superiority complex. Her advice varied between "certainly sensible and useful, but also so baseline that only a child wouldn't have figured that out by now" and "completely counterproductive". This may, admittedly, be due to bad writing (portraying a political mastermind is not easy, plus Bioware has a history of making NPCs point out the obvious as if the protagonist was a drooling ignoramus) and the aforementioned failure to actually show her being useful to the Inquisition in any capacity although she's supposed to be this political bigwig. She never promised me anything or did anything for me, and if she did, I'd be looking for the dozen traps behind that bait, the dozen favours she'd be sure to want in return, because that's how "the Game" works and she never gave me a reason to believe she stops "playing" it even for a heartbeat.
Other thing I find funny is how people say she is like a magister from Tevinter.
I agree that is just projection. There are plenty of reasons to like or dislike a character without inventing more.
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