Uh, sadly, the producers have confirmed that she's going to come back as the Lady of the Lake. I think here, they were stuck with what to do as they've already killed Nimueh off and Nimueh's usually the name of the Lady, and also usually Merlin's love interest (which she clearly wasn't, this time around), so the writers just went "screw it!" and made up their own character to fit in the already existing role.
I'm going by the fact that this isn't the first time this has happened. Apart from Arthur being the King of a place called Camelot and Merlin being someone vaguely important who helped Arthur, most characters are OC's - original characters added in over time. Guinevere, Lancelot, the Lady, and even magical!Merlin were all added in later. Freya's just another character in a long line of fanfiction characters (as technically, all non-Geoffrey versions of Merlin arefanfiction), a line that spans back over centuries.
The show already shifts roles around to fit their needs - in the original legends, Merlin's actually a boy-genius and a prophet under King Arthur, and yet here Morgana's the Seer - and quite frankly, it's all the original twists that make it interesting. After a certain point, we really are going to have to go "screw the legends" in order to have this whole new version of Merlin to work with. Hell, most versions of Arthurian literature are all drastically different from Geoffrey's writings, so in comparison to the changes they induced, we're actually still pretty damn similar to the source legends we work with.
I'm glad you liked my review - and, objectiveness is something I'm good at. I hope you'll enjoy my review for 210!
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Date: 2009-11-28 10:49 pm (UTC)I'm going by the fact that this isn't the first time this has happened. Apart from Arthur being the King of a place called Camelot and Merlin being someone vaguely important who helped Arthur, most characters are OC's - original characters added in over time. Guinevere, Lancelot, the Lady, and even magical!Merlin were all added in later. Freya's just another character in a long line of fanfiction characters (as technically, all non-Geoffrey versions of Merlin arefanfiction), a line that spans back over centuries.
The show already shifts roles around to fit their needs - in the original legends, Merlin's actually a boy-genius and a prophet under King Arthur, and yet here Morgana's the Seer - and quite frankly, it's all the original twists that make it interesting. After a certain point, we really are going to have to go "screw the legends" in order to have this whole new version of Merlin to work with. Hell, most versions of Arthurian literature are all drastically different from Geoffrey's writings, so in comparison to the changes they induced, we're actually still pretty damn similar to the source legends we work with.
I'm glad you liked my review - and, objectiveness is something I'm good at. I hope you'll enjoy my review for 210!