So Merlin's back

[charamei]

Ooh, cool, Merlin's looking interesting. Hopefully it won't devolve back into Monster-of-the-Week: it does politics so well that it's always a shame when the plot is yet another go-around of 'X falls in love with a monster'.

I like Merlin. It's the best televised DnD, well, ever. It's clever and silly and cracky and it has Emilia Fox.

There's just one small problem, which I can sum up in image form.



(Okay, okay, so technically Caeden's a bard, not a wizard, but I'm fairly sure Merlin is a CHA-based caster so it's all good.)

S'right. I haven't the foggiest what these knights' names are. After four series I vaguely recognise probably-Lancelot, and that's it.

Names, people! Use one another's names occasionally! I'm begging you!

Wonder if I'll know who they are by the end of the series... :p

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Knights

[lurkingcat]

Odysseus = Leon, Diomedes = Elyan (he is the mysteriously unmentioned-until-he-showed-up brother of Gwen), Redshirt is probably Gwaine (I am basing this on him having hair longer than Leon's), Ajax = Percy or Percival or whatever they have settled on calling him now.

I may be getting am unreasonable amount of entertainment from the Knights of the Round Table not really being very much like their legendary counterparts :)

Re: Knights

[charamei]

Ah, thanks! I had a feeling that Diomedes was Gwen's brother, but couldn't remember his name :p And I actually thought Percival was Percival, although I have no idea how I reached that conclusion. Maybe I do remember the last series after all.

I may be getting am unreasonable amount of entertainment from the Knights of the Round Table not really being very much like their legendary counterparts :)

Yes! Except for Arthur, because apparently there is only one appropriate look for the king who brings on a Golden Age.

I like to think of Merlin as a D&D campaign, in the vein of Darths & Droids. This brings endless amusement, and very rarely causes any viewing dissonance ;)

Re: Knights

[lurkingcat]

Heh! My viewing of Merlin is further complicated by the fact that I've been playing in a Pendragon campaign over roughly the same period that the show has been airing. So there's Arthurian literature, a roleplaying game and the BBC Merlin version all competing for space in my brain.

While the player group haven't managed to derail any of the main events of legend to the extent that the show has, we may have warped things slightly. We also have the joy of telling battlehamster that It Is All His Fault every time Lancelot does something unbearable because one of his characters is actually Lancelot's father :)