Merlin! What I have heard is hilarious. I can't believe they decided to mess with the story so extremely. It's terrible in the way that I love things that are terrible! OH AMY OH AMY!!! I started watching it because it was terrible, but now I'm ADDICTED because I now think that it's REALISTIC TO THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE. I am heavily far gone and I doubt my sanity. But (stealing from a post I made on someone else's journal): it's just so... ridiculous and cutely epic and the characters are darling. Also, it WARMS MY MEDIEVAL-ROMANCE SOUL because IT MIXES OLD AND NEW CHEESINESS TO MAKE MARBLE CHEESE. The labyrinths, the unexpected now-we're-at-the-Sea, the forest where all the stuff happens, the not-so-distressed disguised evil damsels, even the Morgana I CAN HAZ GRUDGE NAO = STRAIGHT from medieval romances, which were cheesier than the cheese in their day and knew it.
ALSO, Amy, it has GEOFFREY OF FRICKING MONMOUTH in it. As a regular minor character. And Giles. If you like you can skip the first three episodes and start with The Poisoned Chalice, which is where things move from terrible to cracky and kick into awesomeness for the first time.
Oh man all the Sesame Street Christmas songs. I wish I had a way of recording for you my sesame street christmas tape, which is fantastico. Then again, it's probably on the internet somewhere >_> Ohhhh, Sesame Street. :D :D If you say you also remember the Today's Special Christmas, you will make my life complete.
OH AMY OH AMY!!! I started watching it because it was terrible, but now I'm ADDICTED because I now think that it's REALISTIC TO THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE. I am heavily far gone and I doubt my sanity. But (stealing from a post I made on someone else's journal):
it's just so... ridiculous and cutely epic and the characters are darling. Also, it WARMS MY MEDIEVAL-ROMANCE SOUL because IT MIXES OLD AND NEW CHEESINESS TO MAKE MARBLE CHEESE. The labyrinths, the unexpected now-we're-at-the-Sea, the forest where all the stuff happens, the not-so-distressed disguised evil damsels, even the Morgana I CAN HAZ GRUDGE NAO = STRAIGHT from medieval romances, which were cheesier than the cheese in their day and knew it.
ALSO, Amy, it has GEOFFREY OF FRICKING MONMOUTH in it. As a regular minor character. And Giles. If you like you can skip the first three episodes and start with The Poisoned Chalice, which is where things move from terrible to cracky and kick into awesomeness for the first time.
Oh man all the Sesame Street Christmas songs. I wish I had a way of recording for you my sesame street christmas tape, which is fantastico. Then again, it's probably on the internet somewhere >_>
Ohhhh, Sesame Street. :D :D If you say you also remember the Today's Special Christmas, you will make my life complete.
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