In days of old / when knights were bold
We watched the first episode of "The Adventures of Sir Lancelot!" tonight. That show is hilarious and ridiculous - but the sword-fighting is terrible.
The reason we're watching it is that it stars William Russel, who went on to play Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who some 7 years later. The show is 1956, black and white, and completely goofy. And, um, he seems to be playing precisely the same character. No, scratch that. Some of Ian's fight scenes actually look pretty good. But yeah, he's a wise-cracking skeptic who occasionally hits things again (well, except this was earlier). And he seems very fond of that horse.
So it's good fun. And it has a completely ridiculous (but frighteningly catchy) exposition song over the ending credits. Lancelot is typically my least favorite character in the Arthurian legend, but he's pretty lovable here. And most everybody else has no personality. Gawaine seems to be the bad guy...or something... and Merlin is a meddler and a charletan. But it's good fun, and I'm glad we bought it.
The reason we're watching it is that it stars William Russel, who went on to play Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who some 7 years later. The show is 1956, black and white, and completely goofy. And, um, he seems to be playing precisely the same character. No, scratch that. Some of Ian's fight scenes actually look pretty good. But yeah, he's a wise-cracking skeptic who occasionally hits things again (well, except this was earlier). And he seems very fond of that horse.
So it's good fun. And it has a completely ridiculous (but frighteningly catchy) exposition song over the ending credits. Lancelot is typically my least favorite character in the Arthurian legend, but he's pretty lovable here. And most everybody else has no personality. Gawaine seems to be the bad guy...or something... and Merlin is a meddler and a charletan. But it's good fun, and I'm glad we bought it.