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

[divanoir.livejournal.com]

I planned to, but there appears to be a golf tournament running long.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

We are DVR-ing it. This way, we can race through the commercials, and I can finish watching the Yankees play badly. Hey, maybe it might be sort of good.

[lagilman]

grrr. stupid golf.

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to wait on Merlin till I read some reviews of the first ep. I already dislike almost all television anyway, so why risk the horror?

[lagilman]

and we're on. and already it looks baaaaaad....

(I need an "easily amused" icon, clearly)

[infiniteviking]

I hear the series is supposed to be nutty and hilarious, and of course ASH is required viewing no matter what he's in, so it's on my List. But... the List is, at this point, rather long.

[lagilman]

so far, it seems to be a retelling so far of the mark, they should have just changed the names and been done with it, plus all the "modern" touches of dialogue that drive me snarly (and not servant, SQUIRE, if they're going to have him prepping his armor, damn it)

Also, the "casting Camelot into a deep sleep" thing? I did that already in THE CAMELOT SPELL, damn it.

But Tony's in it, so I'll keep watching.

[divanoir.livejournal.com]

I realized I wasn't paying much attention after the forty minute mark, so I took a break to wash the dishes and take out the trash.

[infiniteviking]

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. A lot of retellings seems to start off by changing the basics and essentially creating a new epic with old names and, with luck, some of the old spirit as well. It seems to boil down to whether the modern version can be believably walled off from the traditional version while still remaining true to some sort of form. (But yeah, it's just plain annoying when terminology is used wrong.)

...The Camelot Spell, hm? *puts on the List*

[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*

[supertailz.livejournal.com]

Apparently Merlin is really really just that slashy? I'm really excited for it:)