Kaamelott meme • five/ten cold opens
L’Anniversaire de Guenièvre (Livre II)
Hey! Have you heard about the “King Arthur’s Camelot” play by Cincinatti ballet. I’ve seen videos on YT and read the plot, and it’s pretty interesting despite the fact that Morgana and Nimue are erased from the story and we have a trope of “Ladies of the Lake” who are just cardbord villains (to see these women erased from so many series/movies versions of The Legend always makes me angry). PD: the Arthur dancer is such a hottie
I’ve heard about it, but a part from some pictures here and there, I don’t know a lot about it, sadly. Oh, I didn’t know there was no Morgana and no Nimue, strange, Morgana is usually kept in the story, and I definitely feel your irritation 😦
HA. He is indeed. I wish there was a dvd around!
Let’s watch together “The Legend of King Arthur”
Here we are at the last two episodes of The Legend of King Arthur:
This series was super fun and if you missed the previous episodes you can still watch the last two with us (you can find the links of previous episodes in the tag ‘group chat’ or simply searching for the name of the tv show on youtube. But even if you don’t have the time to catch up, this series is pretty straightforward, just out of Malory’s plot!)
HOW
This is a very homemade streaming as… not really a streaming. We will get in the chatroom all together and then we will start the video at the same time! The video will be in English without any subtitles (earphones recommended)! The chat room is free and open, you won’t need to register, just to chose a nickname.
If you come in late, no problem!, we’ll tell you the minute we are at so you can watch it with us. (Or you can just come to watch one of the two episodes)
WHEN
10 June (Saturday)
Rome 11.30 pm
New York 5.30 pm
vic australia 7.30 am (next day)
WHERE
The chat group is here on chatzy (click on Normal connection if you get the https not allowed warning).
Jerry Lewis visiting Robert Taylor on the set of The Knights of The Round Table, 1953.
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procrastinating on coursework with a little ink drawing of Morgause, Gawain and bb Agravaine
Rewatching Merlin BBC
These are not plot summaries, but they are summaries of all the important stuff that happen in episodes. I wrote them to point out the problems and the incoherencies of the tv show (both in realtion to the episode and to the next seasons). Reblogging them to prepare myself to watch the new season of Merlin.
Season 4
- Episode 01 + 02 “OOC Morgana doesn’t recognize Dragoon”
- Episode 03 “Morgana’s hatred is stronger than her desider to free people”
- Episode 04 “Dragons”
- Episode 05 “OOC Arthur doesn’t know what he wants”
- Episode 06 “Merlin doesn’t tell Arthur”
- Episode 07 “Arthur ooc doesn’t know who he trusts”
- Episode 08 “Sexist Arthur is sexist, not the product of a sexist society”
- Episode 09 “SUPER SEXIST ARTHUR + slut shaming”
- Episode 10 “Gawain’s sister”
- Episode 11 “Angst Arthur and evil Arabs”
- Episode 12 + 13 “Like brother and sister and the need to kill a woman”
Season 3
- Episode 01 + Episode 02 “Obvious Morgana is obvious”
- Episode 03 “A little OOC”
- Episode 04 “Is Gawain a nobleman?”
- Episode 05 “Why (for future references) sexism”
- Episode 06 “Dull marriage for the princess”
- Episode 07 “Elyan knows too much”
- Episode 08 “The non-existing religion”
- Episode 09 “Gaius love story”
- Episode 10 “And suddenly: hate!”
- Episode 11 “Why Arthur will forever hate magic”
- Episode 12 “The forgotten Cup”
- Episode 13 “A wild Perceval appears!”
- Extra
Season 2
- Episode 01 “Destroy all magic!”
- Episode 02 “We can’t be together because of Uther”
- Episode 03 “The wrong secret”
- Episode 04 “Gwen and Lancelot”
- Episode 05 “Suddenly disbelief”
- Episode 06 “Nearly hugging”
- Episode 07 “I am sorry, Gaius”
- Episode 08 “Morgause and Morgana cannot be sisters”
- Episode 09 “Freya”
- Episode 10 “Vivian in love”
- Episode 11 “Suddenly attraction”
- Episode 12 “Killing Morgana”
- Episode 13 “Confused Dragon and confused Uther”
Season 1
- Episode 01 “Morgana and Gwen are bff”
- Episode 02 “Incest and Uther knows it!”
- Episode 03 “Nimue sees everything”
- Episode 04 “Beltane”
- Episode 05 “Lancelot”
- Episode 06 “Gaius is a freeman”
- Episode 07 “Morgana’s premonition”
- Episode 08 “Mordred”
- Episode 09 “Nimue’s just anger”
- Episode 10 “Women can fight”
- Episode 11 “All the apples”
- Episode 12 “Gwen’s father”
- Episode 13 “Goodbye, sir Bedivere”
- Extra
For the person who asked me about Merlin BBC, I actually did this kind of recap/rewatch with comments, years ago : )
Hi, I love this blog! What do you think of BBC’s Merlin? Do you think it’s a good or entertaining adaptation or not loyal enough to the legends?
Hello! Thank you!
I actually don’t have a problem with something not loyal to the legends. I enjoyed the new King Arthur movie a lot and I just watched a movie where Morgana and Mordred use alien technology to defeat Bangkok’s residents descendants of arthurian knights- and it was great!
My main problem is actually the opposite. I loved Merlin BBC first season because everything was new and different, but to me it felt like they had to force the ‘famous’ arthurian themes on the show, later on. There was no need to turn Morgana into a villain (not that I didn’t enjoy it, but it seemed a bit of an extrem turn when you rewatch the first season), and absolutely no need to put random knights with no back story, or to have Lancelot and Guinevere have their affair, or even to get to Camlann. It felt to me that they shaped the characters they introduced to get the famous bits of legends- ending up with a lot of contraddictions.
I would have enjoyed more a show less constricted by these arthurian milestones (’Morgana has to be evil’, ‘Morgana is Arthur’s sister’, ‘Mordred is a villain’, ‘Guinevere cheats on Arthur’, ‘the Fisher King’, ‘Arthur dies at Camlann’) and more about developing the characters and the stories in the shows (what about the dragon? what about Arthur actually rethinking the magic ban instead of rushing it in the last seconds? What about episodes about the other knights?).
Arthurian Legends 