2009!
Happy New Year!!!
I finished watching Merlin. I really liked it, which surprised me, because I've always liked Bernard Cornwell's take on the Arthurian Legend. His trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God (one of the best books I've read), and Excalibur) is SO different from the angle the show takes. The books are set around 500 A.D., and there's no magic. Merlin is considered a magician, but nothing supernatural actually happens, and the focus of the books is more on Arthur, from the POV of Derfel, one of his soldiers. The stories are gritty and miserable and real, filled with damp weather, betrayals, and bloody battles with Saxons. Good stuff!
Anyway, the show is vastly different, yet totally endearing and fun to watch.
Why do so many people not like crossovers? I've seen many people say, "Well, I don't read crossovers..."
I haven't read many, because I'm not familiar with most fandoms (I've never seen Buffy or Dark Angel, or X-Files, etc), but I've read a few lately, and I am ADDICTED. I read an SGA/original Star Trek crossover that I LOVED, and the Merlin/SGA fusion that I read recently nearly sent me into orbit. Oh, and I once read a really interesting Heroes/SPN crossover. And astolat's Old Country, which was a SPN/Harry Potter crossover, was amazing. Maybe the key is knowing both sets of characters?
Poll Crossovers
I finished watching Merlin. I really liked it, which surprised me, because I've always liked Bernard Cornwell's take on the Arthurian Legend. His trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God (one of the best books I've read), and Excalibur) is SO different from the angle the show takes. The books are set around 500 A.D., and there's no magic. Merlin is considered a magician, but nothing supernatural actually happens, and the focus of the books is more on Arthur, from the POV of Derfel, one of his soldiers. The stories are gritty and miserable and real, filled with damp weather, betrayals, and bloody battles with Saxons. Good stuff!
Anyway, the show is vastly different, yet totally endearing and fun to watch.
Why do so many people not like crossovers? I've seen many people say, "Well, I don't read crossovers..."
I haven't read many, because I'm not familiar with most fandoms (I've never seen Buffy or Dark Angel, or X-Files, etc), but I've read a few lately, and I am ADDICTED. I read an SGA/original Star Trek crossover that I LOVED, and the Merlin/SGA fusion that I read recently nearly sent me into orbit. Oh, and I once read a really interesting Heroes/SPN crossover. And astolat's Old Country, which was a SPN/Harry Potter crossover, was amazing. Maybe the key is knowing both sets of characters?
Poll Crossovers