Well, time for my weekly amused rant about Merlin...

[daibhidc]

Actually, I don't have much to say about this episode. The plot was decent enough, Arthur got to show that he's a bold knight and not just an arrogant twerp, and there were no new revelations about how much this version was deviating from the Gospel According To Mallory (although, when Uther started talking to Arthur about his past experience with Nimueh and how he'd "look[ed] into a sorceror's heart", without actually going into details, I started trying to remember if Igraine had ever been mentioned, or if we'd just been told Arthur's mother wasn't around...). All in all, a decent episode, but not one that lets me show off my rudimentary knowledge of Arthuriana by pointing out how they're deviating.

Next week: Lancelot. Expect me to be back on schedule for that 8-)!

Comments

[sloopjonb.livejournal.com]

One L in Malory, please.

I actually saw this ep, and it crossed my mind to wonder why they bothered using the Arthurian names at all. It's not like Ver Kids are going to how who the hell they all are.

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Like Smallville, I assume they think it gets them bonus points from people who do know this stuff. The Smallville target audience doesn't know that Milton Fine (the Kryptonian supercomputer disguised as a history professor) shares his name with a circus mentalist posessed by an alien intelligence in the comics, and wouldn't care if they did. That's for the benefit of the "periphery demographic" of comics geeks.