On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am two episodes in. A friend of mine who loves the story of Arthur, > Lancelot, et al is enraged at the creative liberties the series is > taking with the characters. That doesn't bother me nearly as much as I > can't shake the feeling someone took Deadwood scripts and set them in > medieval times. > We have to wait in our house until this pops up on the Netflix. But I will say I think your friend is going to have to either check his or her rage at the door, or else get at the back of a very long line. The Arthurian characters have been the subject of creative liberty by so many hands over so many years, that there is no real cannonic form; the character of Lancelot himself is something of a bastardaization of the "original" legend (of which there really is no single, original version). I think Starz has as much right as anyone else in the long history of appropriating and profiting off of these stories to do what they will with them. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
