[ SECRET POST #1896 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1896 ⌋


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Comments

[karuvapatta.livejournal.com]

so basically, you want a totally different show that has even less to do with Arthurian legends than actual Merlin?

[copperiisulfate.livejournal.com]

i for one wouldn't mind.

because they are clearly doing SO great with arthurian legend as it stands :/

[karuvapatta.livejournal.com]

TBH, I now watch it mostly because Colin Morgan and Bradley James, omg, and occasionally other people. The writing is terrible, the plots are repetitive, characters are flat and their development non-existent, and there's a heavy dollop of sexism for added fun - but the actors are good, at least,

I'm just not sure if making Gwen and Morgana the main characters would actually improve anything, because if handled by the same people, the show would probably have similar problems. So for now, we can stick to fanfics and pray that they hired better writers for S5.

[copperiisulfate.livejournal.com]

i love the actors and that's pretty much why i'm still on board as well

i just don't get how they are still hiding under the pretence of "arthurian legend" after a) starting out with the notion that this would be a reboot b) reverting back to trying to follow the legend and then c) proceeding to stomp all over it. repeatedly.

i am in such an emotionally abusive relationship with this show and still, i cannot quit it D:

[(Anonymous)]

Still, I'd argue (as I did about the upcoming Sherlock) - we've had endless of adaptations/versions/loosely based stuff which focus on Merlin and Arthur, why can't we have it done another way just once?

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I don't know about a show, but on the Sherlock front, there's a series of books Carole Nelson Douglas started writing many years ago and has added to it slowly over time; I think there are eight now. They start with "Good Night, Irene," I think - it follows the adventures of Irene Adler, her husband, and her friend and confidante (and her "Watson") Nell, who is the one telling the stories. They're very good.

[danielhoan.livejournal.com]

You mean like the best-selling book Mists of Avalon?

Yeah. Kinda like that.


/sarcasm

(OP, I think this is a terrific idea.)

[karuvapatta.livejournal.com]

The best-selling book in which Gwenhwyfar didn't as much as rise to power as was married off to Arthur and spent the rest of it being pious and lusting over Lancelot? And the one in which Morgaine didn't fall into darkness as much as tried to keep the Great Goddess from being forgotten (and also lusted over Lancelot)? The book in which there was no tragic friendship between the two because they pretty much hated each other?

It's been a while since I read it, but the two stories aren't exactly alike.

[danielhoan.livejournal.com]

UGH. I apologize. This was me attempting to post to the above comment

'so basically, you want a totally different show that has even less to do with Arthurian legends than actual Merlin?'

in a sarcastic way. And for some reason it replied to the thread, not to that specific comment.

I was basically trying to imply that the Arthurian legend from female characters had been done before and it had been fairly well received, so why could they not do it again? I don't know much about the book because I could never sit through it all.

[(Anonymous)]

Fuck no, not like Mists of Avalon. Guinivere was such a tool in that book, she's actually better in the show.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree with the other commenters below your comment. And, OMG, not only that but it was sooooooooooo boring to read. Boy, did, MZB do a lot of telling and not showing in that book. I've read more interesting grocery lists.

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

Lol, nowhere near as boring as Merlin...

[visp.livejournal.com]

Why not? It's not like we don't have a ton of King Arthur-based literature, shows, books and movies already.