Do you like Merlin? I don't know, I've never Merled...

[desperance]

Oh, glory. Lack of. The BBC is making a Merlin series. Presumably to hook in the Dr Who viewers, in his absence or regeneration or whatever it is.

I just saw a trailer. It looks... abysmal? Worse than Robin Hood?

I suppose I should be celebrating: something else I don't have to watch.

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At least, she said glumly, you won't have to field questions about it for however long it runs. And be asked to be on panels about it.
Sometimes I really really hate being a Celticist.

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Hee. Is true. I am known as one who hates the whole Arthur thing, in perpetuity. Even Guy Gavriel Kay, who is my touchstone: when Arthur comes punting into The Fionavar Tapestry, I screamed, I did. What the hell was he doing there? Why did Guy think he couldn't manage an avowedly post-Tolkien fantasy without Arthur too...?

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One of these days we are going to have to have a conversation on the 'And another thing I hate about Arthur is....' theme. There are not words to express how I feel about Arthurian stuff (apart from a very very select handful of books).
I too screamed at Arthur in the Fionavar tapestry. But not as hard as I laughed at the Great Celtic Scholar and his huge audience (I was trained by the greatest living Celtic scholar at the time Kay was writing. Huge audiences don't happen). Oh, and then there's prince aircraft component. (Aileron.)