Dear Merlin Fandom...

Jul 08, 2009 13:01

I am fully aware that canonically the show Merlin is not at all historically accurate.  However, there is a massive difference between characters having the bright idea of putting meat between two slices of bread before that actually happened in history and a Medieval character contemplating the merits of an animal's DNA.  Please keep this in mind ( Read more... )

fandom: merlin, rants by jane

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jane_elliot July 8 2009, 21:54:08 UTC
Yup. A character was considering that certain animals should be removed from the gene pool. *sigh*

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lucidscreamer July 8 2009, 22:13:48 UTC
Wha-?? I just... Wow.

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jane_elliot July 8 2009, 22:16:39 UTC
I know. *sigh*

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meishali July 9 2009, 02:30:19 UTC
Now they've discovered genetics on the show??? Wow!!!

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jane_elliot July 9 2009, 03:06:03 UTC
Heh. See, if it happened on the show, I couldn't really rant about it (at least not on this comm:) It's when it happens in *fanfic* that I get driven up the wall. I can accept a significant amount of leeway with historical accuracy in fanfic in general, but even my credulity doesn't stretch to the discovery of genetics before, you know, *microscopes*.

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gwendolynflight July 9 2009, 04:01:08 UTC
Sandwiches were around. They just weren't called sandwiches. And were kept inside your pockets for eating after a hard morning's work in the fields. Well, between the belt and your skin, anyway. Yum ... (Medieval food is awesome, but kind of gross.) Oh, and herrings were most popular. Or cheese. A very soft, young cheese, cause of course aging cheese made it more expensive ... Herb cheeses were popular, because herbs were practically free ... I know when they invented pockets, too! ::insane from school::

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jane_elliot July 9 2009, 12:57:57 UTC
Sandwiches are always the issue people bring up when they talk about how non-accurate Merlin is. I'm not really that picky, so I just nod and smile. DNA, on the other hand...

(When did they invent pockets? I live for trivia:)

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gwendolynflight July 10 2009, 23:28:26 UTC
1590s, very soon after codpieces (1580s) but before those went out of vogue (1610s).

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jane_elliot July 11 2009, 01:53:25 UTC
Dude, this is fascinating -- did you learn any of this from a book? Cause I would love the title:)

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sarcasticchick July 9 2009, 17:56:00 UTC
DNA? Well, that's not too surprising given the advanced level of medicine that apparently Gaius has achieved in many fics. I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't hiding an NMRI in his alcove for his scientific pursuits...

I mean - science was advanced during that time, y0! We're just idiots and have forgotten the long lost arts of bleeding and balancing humuors in our day and age.

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jane_elliot July 9 2009, 17:59:10 UTC
Dude! I can just see it:

"Stay here, Merlin. I must consult my books."

"Why can't I consult them with you? I can read, you know."

Hemming and hawwing. "Well, this is a *special* book. It's from very far away. You don't speak Klingon, do you? Well, there you go then."

*hustles off*

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sarcasticchick July 9 2009, 18:10:37 UTC
Cause don't you know - in Camelot? Everyone can read.

And hah. Gaius is actually Wesley Crusher in disguise.

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jane_elliot July 9 2009, 18:16:57 UTC
O.O That would explain *so much*. And that food replicator he brought along would explain why Camelot has fruit year round (except for course for the times when Aurthur goes off and kills unicorns, of course.)

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