Merlin!

Eggie · Sun 09/10/2011 12:12:54

I watch it sometimes, it's good fun and it has Anthony Head! So yep, recommended.

Atelier · Sun 09/10/2011 12:35:32

I never knew they had hair gel and renaissance castles in the 6th century.

Khris · Sun 09/10/2011 14:59:56

Yeah, what I hate about shows like that is how the costumes always look way too modern and clean. It's like they don't even try.

Eggie · Sun 09/10/2011 15:37:35

It's like they are making a TV show with limited resources and do not own a time machine to film in the actual past or something.

Igor Hardy · Sun 09/10/2011 15:54:33

Well, they could have at least made the costumes dirty and smelly and tell the stars that they can't wash their hair for the time of filming.

Atelier · Sun 09/10/2011 16:05:33

It also puzzles me why the second from left is wearing a pauldron. They were not worn or even invented until the Late Middle Ages. Hundreds of years after the [supposed] lifetime of King Arthur.

Babar · Sun 09/10/2011 16:38:08

I'm not sure they actually gave a specific timeframe for the events of the show, and people have placed Arthur all over the middle ages, so I don't think that is really all that much of an issue.

However, the wiki page says that it was influenced by Smallville....which, doesn't really improve my chances of watching it.

AJA · Sun 09/10/2011 17:02:24

At least they didn't fall for that old realism killer of having a talking dragon that sounds exactly like John Hurt.

Anyway, enough about inaccuracies in a work of fiction that's not supposed to be accurate, only a reimagining of the legend. And Mr. Elephant ears is one of the best things in the show! And by that I mean he's very good, not that everything else is even worse.

The biggest problem I have with the show is that they completely flushed the character of Morgana down the toilet between series two and three. Yeah, let's just skip the inner conflict that made the character interesting and jump straight into her being a bad bad baddie with no conscience. Sigh.