daibhidc | Merlin: The Lady Of The Lake

Last week I speculated that Morguase was meant to be the Lady of the Lake in this version.

Well, that turned out to be as accurate as my conclusion that Morgana and Morguase couldn't be sisters. Because the Lady of the Lake is apparently Freya[1], a cursed druid-girl who appears in this episode.

Then again, nothing about this episode remotely suggests the Lady of the Lake, beyond a mention that Freya used to live near a lake, before she was cursed. Beyond that it's Our Hero Meets A Girl He Has An Instant Deep Connection To, But She Has A Secret And Then She Dies[2]. Oh, and Arthur now thinks he's a cross-dresser, but I don't expect that to come up again.

To be fair, she says something about repaying Merlin just before she dies, and she's then cremated on the lake outside Camelot[3]. So it's entirely possible her spirit will remain around the lake waiting for an opportunity to do so (which will possibly involve retrieving that sword Merlin threw in the lake last season).

Next week, of course, having (kind of) dealt with the Lady of the Lake, they're introducing an enchantress called Vivian...

[1]Well, if you have Saxons with Scottish accents, why not Druids named after Norse gods? And there is a certain amount of relevance, since the goddess Freya drove a chariot pulled by cats, and the druidess Freya turns into a bat-winged panther called a Bastet (yes, it's the mythology mashup that just keeps going...) She also gets a viking burial.

[2]Probably in TV Tropes, somewhere; probably under a slightly shorter name...

[3]Fridge Logic: All that sneaking around Melin had to do to get food and clothing into the tunnels, but he can wander out of the city carrying a dying woman?