Merlin 1x05

[stillane]

 Because I am sick, and should be studying, and have very little brain at the moment, I have only this to say:

1. Holy crap, it continues to get slashier. Awesome. Merlin freaking the hell out while looking for Arthur among the dead? Even more awesome. 

2. Lancelot's parents were murdered in front of him as a child, after which he immediately went on a quest to be a master swordsman, which led him to face off against the hero of the story, and eventually befriend him. Guys, Lancelot is Inigo Montoya. *adores*

3. 20thcenturyvole : haha! I've not been Jossed! Also, Gwen managed to quote a line I'd given her word for word. Eeeeexcellent. *g*

Comments

[enname.livejournal.com]

*pinches nose*

I am such an old stick in the mud, who would rather go re read T.H. White, Monmouth, or even heaven forbid, Mallory, rather than attempt to watch a television show called Merlin.

Why yes, I do feel about 100 years old.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Hee. You fuddydud, you. :P

I'm funny about remakes and reimaginings and various other re- things. If it's something that's really only been done once or twice, a remake will generally be guaranteed to piss me off. There's something about tampering with what you liked the first time around that only rarely comes out well, and the alternative is to stay painfully true to the original, which makes you go, "But, why? We already had this. Why did we need a copy of it?"

With the Arthurian stuff, though... I think it's that it's been handled differently so many times, even in source texts, that I can divorce myself from the "No! Don't mess with it!" instinct and take the new package at its own merits. In this case, those merits are not quite Oscar material, but they're damn fun. *g*

[enname.livejournal.com]

Curmudgeon more like.

I am perhaps very particular about my remakes and reimaginings of things, and quite generally almost anything that comes out of a television show I am going to run hopping and screaming in the other direction, especially lately. That is my problem with the Arthurian stuff - it is used everywhere, but very rarely is there a decent reworking of it, or integrating. Picky, picky, picky me. Oh and I have rather randomly seen two episodes of Merlin - they tried showing it over here before it was pulled.

Indeed, why do we need double copies? *coughs and mutters something about Brideshead Revisited*