User blog comment:Shutupmerlin8/I just noticed.../@comment-5659316-20130202005232

I don't think Freya was ever "evil". Not even as a Bastet. When she was a Bastet, it was more like she was more like a typical wild animal. Case in point, she attacked innocents, but any -even nonmagical- wild animal, be it a lion, tiger, bear, etc... might have done the same, simply because they lacked the human sense (which Freya's curse seemed to take away from her at midnight) of right and wrong; just because they were wild animals. But some people are good at approaching and calming wild animals, and Freya allowed Merlin to stroke her when she was wounded but still a Bastet. This is comparable to maybe a lion that was raised by someone as a cub allowing that person near them, but attacking anyone else. This doesn't make the animal evil, it just makes them an untamed animal. Whereas, when Gwen was cursed to do Morgana's bidding, bascially making her a puppet queen at best, she didn't have the "wild animal" mentality. Nor did anyone else who was catogorized as "gone evil" by spell or otherwise in Merlin. Even Kilgharrah, much as I love him, was closer to "evil" than Freya was. He conciously chose with almost human-level reasoning to attack Camelot when he was free, out of vengence.