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Blah, double post, but I need to rant about something.

For whatever reason, I decided to watch the finale of Camelot just now. I'm not even going to get into everything that was wrong with it, but one thing just stands out as stupefyingly bad writing/directing.

So... a certain knight, who might have a reputation as being a great warrior, is killed in this episode. By a mob of peasants. And do you want to know why he was killed? Because he WENT INTO BATTLE WEARING PAJAMAS. I'm not even joking.

Um... hello, the whole point of being a knight is being well-protected by the armor you can afford thanks to being a vassal-lord. Training will only take you so far. I kid you not, there was not a single weapon in said peasant horde that could have harmed him, had he been wearing plate and chain, with an arming coat and a gambeson (a camail and helm, obviously). But... no, he decided it was more strategically sound to fight in his PJs. And they expect me to feel grief over his death? Yeah... right.

I mean, even Arthur, who's played by a model and couldn't possibly go to war with his flowing gold locks on full display, was wearing a brigandine.
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
Old Posted 06-12-2011, 07:13 PM Reply With Quote