Starz' Camelot

This is premiering in April. It's decent-ish. Jamie Campbell-Bower's a bit annoying and Joseph Fiennes doesn't make much of an impression in the first hour. Eva Green has a sex scene in the first half hour. Hopefully more follow.

Trailer with lame emo music:



Never saw The Tudors, but Spartacus was enjoyable. Plus I'm a sucker for the Arthur legend and anything on earth will be better than that rancid, "MERLIN" trash from the BBC.

Ooo... James Purefoy!!!! I'm guessing Green is Morgan le Fay, then.

She's "Morgan" - no le Fay - in this one she's Uther's legitimate daughter instead of Igraine's. Purefoy is King Lot. She F***S him to use him to get on the throne... or something.

Ireland looks nice.

Ah. So they've written Morgause as Morgan, then? As I recall, Morgause was Arthur's half-sister and wife of Lot. Mother of Mordred as well.

Yeah, they seem to be doing a pretty similar condensing of Morgause and Morgana roles that's typical in everything from Excalibur to the Sam Neil Merlin mini. I have to say, I found her better in this than I did in Casino Royale. Significantly so. Between her and Purefoy I was rooting for the bad guys over Bower and Fiennes.

Forlani plays Igraine, who's alive and Morgan's step mother. They uh... don't get along.

You have to remember, I consider anything after Tennyson to be a 'dumbing down' ;) :D

I shall have to keep an eye out for it. I think I managed about ten minutes of that BBC tripe version. Not even any eye candy to keep my attention. The BBC's Robin Hood was dire, but at least it had Richard Armitage in black leather, which was my sole reason for watching the three series.

Not a patch on Michael Praed Jonas Wotsit, I mean. Richard Armitage - well, first time I've ever sided with Sir Guy of Gisburne, I can tell you.

I quite enjoy the BBC's Merlin.

The more early Saturday evening programming that isn't either celebs dancing or delusional T***S queuing up to be sneered at by Simon Cowell, the better.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

The more early Saturday evening programming that isn't either celebs dancing or delusional T***S queuing up to be sneered at by Simon Cowell, the better.

True. There is that. Gods preserve us from more "I'm a ballroom celebrity on ice with no talent X".

If I want to watch ballroom dancing, I want to watch it done properly, thank you so very much.

Based on the ending of the second episode, I got the impression we're supposed to think Morgan gets her power from having sex with a wolf...

Yuck, runaway rave. Four episodes in and the show isn't living up to the potential I saw in the pilot. It may pick up on them, but so far a lot of the potential conflicts have gone almost unnoticed. The whole thing is obviously a deconstruction, but Arthur acting like an emo teenager is not exactly a welcome development. Especially when the other characters are seemingly in a bubble.

Eva Green and Joseph Fiennes' scenery chewing is fun, though.

Vesper wrote:

Yuck, runaway rave.

I prefer 'tactical withdrawal'.

Hmmm - doesn't sound good. Maybe I'll just watch Purefoy and lose interest when he karks it.

Ravenstone wrote:

You have to remember, I consider anything after Tennyson to be a 'dumbing down' ;) :D

Including TH White?? I'm a huge Once and Future King fan (all five books)

I'm getting my medieval fantasy drama from Game of Thrones, thank you very much. ;)

Ravenstone wrote:

Vesper wrote:

Yuck, runaway rave.

I prefer 'tactical withdrawal'.

Hmmm - doesn't sound good. Maybe I'll just watch Purefoy and lose interest when he karks it.

The last episode was good again, to the extent where if it continues to improve I might actually recommend it... I'm so conflicted.

Making Morgan Uther's daughter (by a first wife) instead of Cornwall and Igraine's is a neat dynamic though. As is Merlin being the psycho writing history as the victor. If the actor playing Arthur keeps improving (and the writing of his and Guenevere's relationship continues to improve) it might actually make a worthwhile deconstruction.

Salomé wrote:

I'm getting my medieval fantasy drama from Game of Thrones, thank you very much. ;)

For all its faults, this has personality :)