User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Why Freya deserves more credit (and needs to come back)/@comment-1536224-20121027204420/@comment-5659316-20121028021359

Hello there!

To be honest, I think Freya DID show some of her strength in The Lady of the Lake. It must have taken a lot out of her to leave Merlin, trying to get out of Camelot on her own. A weaker woman would have been all Bella Swan about out it, like "Oh, I need him to protect me... I can't live without him, but I'm too dangerous/not good enough for him... boo-hoo..." Freya, on the other hand, was very mature about it, though it was so sad the way she said, all quietly, "Goodbye Merlin" when he was out of ear-shot, poor guy thinking he was just going to get supplies for them to leave together. Also, as a Bastet, it seems that she killed Halig and yet was able to restrain herself (given, she was injured, but still) from even attempting to attack Merlin. So that was pretty cool/strong of her.

'' I think that the most likely reason for the man to have attacked her was because he wanted to rape her; obviously the writers wouldn't want to mention that because of the younger audience. ''-I thought the same thing. I also think that, for the same reason, while they mention the "old religion" often enough, they refrain from saying flat out if there is a New Religion, and make it more Uther (now Arthur) vs. Magic than New faith vs. Pagans. I think they water a lot down (and I like the way they do it, most of the time, since it's fairly tasteful) for the younger viewers; yet, at the same time, the show is growing in mature nature and dark context. It's like an Arthurian Game of Thrones but without all the icky bits, almost.

When I heard that the Lake of Avalon was going to appear in series five, I really hoped it meant Freya's return. Then everyone started saying Queen Mab was her sister (because the actresses look a little alike) and there was a rumour going around, sort of, that SHE was probably going to be the one to appear there, not Freya. But the more I think about it, the more it seems unlikely to me that Mab is her sister. A) it would be a rip-off of the 1998 Merlin (though that's also what started the rumour, go figure) and B) Freya's family is dead, and Merlin never took any of them to die at the lake of avalon, so unless they've got a secret history of dying and coming back to life in lakes, then I don't see that happening after all. I'm just worried it's going to be like in series 4, when Merlin was in need of healing and those little water spirits came up when Lancelot was watching over him and healed him. I thought it should have been Freya, it would have made way more sense then some random water spirits.