User blog comment:LokiIsAwesome/Why Alvarr is such a big of a character/@comment-174.131.94.24-20120724013013/@comment-174.131.94.24-20120724155459

@ Lokiisawesome: I respect your opinon as well, and I guess I'd have to be happy for all of Alvarr's fans if he came back, because I know so well what it's like to really, REALLY want a favorite character to return and feel like the writers are just ignoring said character and dropping them like a hot potato.

However, I don't think Alvarr NEEDS to return as much as Freya.

My reasons:

1) Freya is the lady of the lake, a character VERY important in Arthurian myth. So far, the show's given her an awesome backstory (her starting out as a cursed Druid who died in Merlin's arms), then let her become as we know her in the legend (the arm in the water/lady of the lake). But I find it fustrating that they would leave it THERE. In fantasy versions of King Arthur stories, the Lady of the Lake is supposed to be a mysterious yet helpful almost "goddess" of a character. (In fact, in some stories, when Merlin goes missing/is trapped in a crystal cave, which depending on the version of the legend she may or may not have trapped him in herself, she takes his place at court!) Which would make sense because, if she ever turned up in Camelot, to anyone excepting Merlin himself, she WOULD seem such. Arthur wouldn't be all that likely to remember her as the girl he saw for two seconds before she turned into a Bastet. Guinevere wouldn't know her; they never met. Even Morgana, who was a good character back when Freya first came into the story and is now a villian, has never met her. She might even be almost as scared of her as she is of "Emrys"!

2) Not to sound like a fangirl, but a PROPER reunition with her and Merlin, not just a face in a puddle or an arm in the water, would be too adorable for words.

Now, in my humble opinon, Alvarr has already served his purpose. His fanatical ways assisted the chance in Morgana to some extent from hero to villian, he brought Mordred back into the story for an episode, and he showed the feeling of magic-users who DON'T want to hide from Uther but rather want revenge against him. What purpose, other than a quick cameo with some other magic-users who might want to revenge themselves against Arthur since Uther's now gone, would his coming back serve?

And on that note, Uther's DEAD. Alvarr WOULD probably be after Arthur next, but Uther's death does take the wind out of his character's sails in my opinon. His returning could just turn into a long-winded plot detour, whereas I feel Freya would help FURTHER the plot, especially in regards to callbacks to the legend(s).