the day after chaos is calm...

[lagilman]

Slow, rainy Sunday. I did a load of laundry, wrote 2,000 new words, watched a movie-and-a-half, and made an early dinner.

Mmm, dinner. If there's anything better than organic mature spinach sauteed with garlic and oil, it's that spinach topped with a rare piece of ribeye, seasoned with nothing more than oil and white balsamic vinegar, a sprig of fresh rosemary from the windowbox, and a grind of black pepper. Om nom nom. Anemia? What's that?

And now I have a glass of wine to finish off, and "Merlin" to mock (Tony Head's in it, so I will watch as much as I can stand. The things we do in the name of fandom...). Anyone else going to be watching? We can mock together!

If the show is too bad to even mock, I may write some more. Or maybe go to sleep early...

EtA: well, Tony still has that gorgeous voice....

Comments

[lagilman]

A few years ago I would have been the first to howl if a series was Doing It Wrong, but I griped about the modern twists in New Who (and New Trek, for that matter) and look how that turned out

Arthur as Uther's legitimate and recognized son, as raised by Uther? Morgain as Uther's ward, and Guenevieve as Morgain's serving-girl/confidant? Merlin as Arthur's servant/squire?

That's a little too much "twist" for me, for this to be Arthurian. As a fantasy story, it's perfectly fine. And I quite liked the dragon (the only part of the Merlin myth they seem to have kept, if 'twisted')

The 'modern' aspect that I dislike is contemporary slang. I'm not asking for formal speech, but conversational slang is a bit much...

[house-draven.livejournal.com]

I read an interview with ASH where he mentioned that they had a number of anachronisms in the first few episodes, but he thought they'd been ironed out. He didn't say how far into the series that happened, though...

It was okay. I'll watch for ASH.

[infiniteviking]

*has now watched some* ......Heh. I see what you mean. Looks like being raised in his rightful environment did wonders for the boy's ego. *snicker*