User blog comment:Merlaa/What do you think of Freya?/@comment-69.171.172.95-20121017231750

Freya was actually my favorite human character on the show (the great dragon being my favorite overall character). I was really surprised that there are fans that didn't care for her. I thought, espeically for one who hasn't been on the show that much (one episode, and one cameo), she was pretty awesome. I also like that they didn't make the lady of the lake a mean, semi-villianous character (such as making Nimueh come back from the dead suddenly redeemed and give Merlin the sword or whatever).

I will freely admit I have a slight pet-peeve with people who dislike Freya, it's a bit biased, but it's mostly because A LOT (not everyone who does, but an AWFUL LOT, that I've noticed), of the fans who didn't like her are such hardcore Morgana/Merlin shippers that were hating on poor Freya less than five seconds into her episode (heck, I bet half of them had a fit when they saw Merlin kiss her in the commercial for that episode and hated her even BEFORE that). I don't feel they gave her a fair chance. There are others who just don't like her on her own merits, I'm sure, but I haven't seen as many.

I think Freya is special because of a few reasons (there are more, but I'll put the ones off the top of my head here).

a) She's one of the few Camelot women who don't act annoyingly passive (I love Gwen, but COME ON...), become evil (I was liking Morgana before that, though admitedly not as much as Freya), or else are only on the show as a potencial princess for Arthur to (not) marry or magically fall in love with (Vivien, Elena, Mithian...frankly, I adored them, but I'm tempted to start singing swan princess' "Princesses on parade" whenever I think of them collectively, so what does THAT tell you? LOL). That alone set her appart from the common guest stars. She wasn't there to fight against magic, she wasn't there to marry Arthur, she wasn't there to betray/corrupt Uther/Arthur/Merlin/Morgana/Gaius or anyone else in Camelot; she had her OWN story arc.

b) She was just a really sweet person, but believiably so. She could have become bitter that her parents were dead and she was cursed, and while there a few moments when she lamented it or felt sorry for herself, it just seemed NATURALLY for someone in her situation not over-the-top or with misplaced vindictiveness (coughcough Morgana's hatred of Uther coughcough). She wasn't mary-sue-ish, in my opinon; she seemed like a relatable, likeable character. Her actions (including leaving Merlin so he wouldn't lose his good life in Camelot) made SENSE without being overly predictable. Also, while we mostly saw her vunerable side, crying and Merlin taking care of her and what-not, we KNOW she has spunk and can take care of herself (she would have never lived that long if she couldn't), even killing someone (given, not on purpose) who attacked her in self-defense.

c) Don't hate me for this one, Morgana/Merlin shippers (I DO like your pairing of choice TOO, it's just not my favorite is all), but I found the relationship between Freya and Merlin more probable and believable than one with Morgana or even Mithian would have been. Espeically now that Morgana's gone bad, and they'd now have (if they became a couple) a love/hate thing (we've SEEN that in too many shows, the sterotypical love/hate thing, give us something SWEET for once, not rough). With Mithian, it would just be a repeat of Arthur/Gwen (the servant and the royal in forbidden love -We've DONE this already, and it was GREAT the first time, we don't need that story thread AGAIN). With Freya, there's no question as to why they would like each other. They understand each other, they don't have different classes separating them (for conflict we have her curse, which is an INWARD thing more than an outward 'oh well people with disapprove cuz you're higher above the salt than me, so...'). Merlin and Freya also have very compatible personalities. They grew up similary, then (given, in different ways, Freya's being more tramatic) had it taken from them/had to leave them. Merlin, overly trusting at times, has learned over the series that he can't trust everyone. Freya appeared to have learned this the hard way too (when she said all sadly "you can't always trust people"). This gives them yet another way to be compatable; they trust freely, have similar backgrounds (minius the whole 'Druid' thing). If Freya had lived longer than one episode, and Merlin had found out about his father being a Dragonlord while she was still alive, I firmly believe, he could have told HER without fear of it getting out or her ever using it against him. Whereas, Morgana, I think, even if she knew about his magic, would have eventually still taken Morgause's side (blood is thicker than water, except in the case of Uther, apparently) and then used it against him. Freya I think, without being boring, was the stable, loving person he needed; which made it all the sadder when she died.

D) I disagree with the commenter that said Freya was over-rated, but I think that's very nice of them, anyway, to support her eventual return to the show for us fans of her. However, I must protest against her not have much potentical and her character being concluded. She has a LOT of potenical. She's the LADY OF THE LAKE. Do you know HOW many Arthurian stories she is in? TONS. Some after death (for some reason, after a knight lops off her head she's still around to talk to another knight later).

There's an almost endless possibility about what they could do with her on the show.

They could have her come back and be Merlin's secret apprentice for an episode and somehow tie it into the overall theme about Merlin working his way up to revealing his magic to Arthur. Mordred could also be an semi-ambigious threat to her in some way, to make it more interesting.

OR, (and I'd LOVE to see this happen, though I bet it won't) Merlin could be in some peril (perhaps Morgana could trap him, in an oak tree or crystal cave), and Freya, while being able to commucate with him, could be unable to help him get out and in the meantime promise (like the lady of the lake in the legend did when Merlin couldn't be there for Arthur, sometimes after being betrayed by her or somebody else) to go to Camelot and look after Arthur. I doubt Arthur would remember her after only that one time meeting her in the dark before she turned into a Bastet. She could do something to thrwart an enemy of Camelot, then Merlin somehow or other breaks free and they switch places and she returns to her lake.

OR she could be called up by Morgana like Lancelot, but have more power over her own mind, being the lady of the lake and only pretend to work for her but really go to warn Merlin. This would be great because we would for sure get an actual face-to-face Merlin/Freya reunion, which is what I think all of us Merlin/Freya fans TRULY want. The fact that they never met again face to face that we saw is what makes her story a bit inconclusive to us.

OR, which is more likely, she could be there at the end, in Avalon with Lancelot or whatever. For a breif cameo.

OR, she could appear to Percival or one of the other knights she had a connection to in the legend and help them in some way and breifly see Merlin at that time as well. That would be a cool cameo, too. Personally I think it should have been HER who healed Merlin from the Dorocha's touch, back in series 4, but sadly that didn't happen.

So that's why I think she CAN come back and derserves to. But that's cool to all of you who think differently, you're welcome to your opinons, too.