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Default   #58   Suzerain of Sheol Suzerain of Sheol is offline
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Well, I can give a brief summary. Gonna try not to rant, unless anyone here really wants me.

It's basically a re-imagining of the Arthur myth, that's for one thing "darker-and-gritter" (read: gratuitous nudity at every opportunity), and for another plays around with the characters so much that the story bears almost no resemblance to any of the Arthur myths I've ever read, besides the characters' names.

Arthur is played by a model. Not an actor, a model. He's also supposed to be around 16 and spends more time trying to have sex than trying to run his country. He's arrogant, thick-headed, self-centered, and indecisive. This is the messianic king of Britain who's prophesied to return? Who would even want him?

What I really hate about it is that a t.v. series is the perfect way to tell the traditional myth, with all the various knights and their subplots, but instead, the producers have decided to turn out this sensationalist, two-dimensional garbage, probably to be able to be in "competition" with HBO's Game of Thrones, except... there really isn't any competition.

In the immortal words of Dennis the Peasant, "King of the who?"
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
Old Posted 05-30-2011, 08:11 PM Reply With Quote