User blog comment:Merlaa/What do you think of Freya?/@comment-1536224-20121024174102

I really like Freya and I hope she returns at some point. We haven't had any explanation about how she became the Lady of the Lake, and we don't even know for sure if she's truly dead. She seems to be in limbo, s0mewhere between life and death. We've seen what happens to dead people in Merlin; they get commanded by the Cailleach and turned into Dorocha, but Freya has had nothing to do with the Cailleach or the Dorocha or even the episodes in which they appeared, despite the fact that it involved dead people returning to the world of the living albeit in the forms of deadly screaming skulls made of smoke.

In The Lady of the Lake, Freya was rather dependant on Merlin, but she'd lost her family, she had to survive by herself and she was cursed to become a Bastet every night. We don't know exactly how long she had been cursed for, but presumably it was quite a while. She couldn't tell Merlin about her curse because he was the only person that had cared about her in god knows how long and she was terrified that he would abandon her if he knew the truth. Of course he didn't, but Freya only knew him for a short time so although she fell in love with him, she couldn't learn everything about him in such a short time, so she couldn't be sure that he wouldn't turn tail and flee when she turned into a massive winged panther.

Part of the reason I want Freya to return is because I fancy her, but I also want her to return because she is the only girl that Merlin has ever fallen in love with. He fancied Morgana before she turned into a psycho, he might have had a crush on Sefa before she disappeared, and he loves Gwen only as a friend. I don't think Merlin will, or should, fall in love with anyone else. Freya is the right woman for him in my opinion, even if she's dead. Of course whether she is actually truly dead is debateable.

There have been talks on the internet about her possible return but so far we've only had a brief appearance in The Coming of Arthur and that was in series 3. We are now in series 5 and apparently there are no plans to bring Freya back in this series either. Nevertheless I still hope that Freya returns again and not just for a brief appearance like she did at the end of series 3; maybe she could be involved in the possible movies that the creators of Merlin have been considering. I don't know if they're actually going to make movies, but I know they have been thinking about it.