Is there any other reason to watch this except Eva Green??

Leontes had his moments too bad there werent many fighting sequences involving him.

There's nothing good about the costuming either.

Everyone wears horrible pleather straps with studs. I know it's a television show, but if Game of Thrones could make simple cloaks and tunics look good, why does Camelot look worse than a rennaisance faire. It looks cheap.

There's nothing good about the costuming either.

Everyone wears horrible pleather straps with studs. I know it's a television show, but if Game of Thrones could make simple cloaks and tunics look good, why does Camelot look worse than a rennaisance faire. It looks cheap.

did that already :)

Eva Green played a great villain; Joseph Fiennes was pretty good as Merlin ; Claire Forlani was awesome as Igraine. The only episodes I truly enjoyed were the ones revolving around these three characters. The rest of it was AWFUL. Arthur was TERRIBLY miscast and the barbie doll Guinevere was just ridiculous. I would have been more sad about the cancellation if the storyline for Merlin, Igraine and Morgan would have continued, but one is dead, the other apparently leaving anyway so we'd just be left with Eva. I'm not sure what Starz was thinking taking on so many big names for it's show- there'd always be the risk of the schedule conflicts, money, etc. I mean, I appreciated the big stars but they are claiming now that it's the reason the show isn't returning. Although I'm sure the decreasing ratings and general rejection of the lead actor had something to do with it as well.

wtf are you even talking about? if you're gonna find reasons to hate the show, use valid ones, not some random sh!t.

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"For example, in the very first scene, we see Arthur having free sex 1960s style. Very odd and extremely out of character and out of the Arthurian setting."

I'm not sure what you mean by "free sex 1960s style", but I see nothing out of character or the Arthurian setting in Arthur (or any other knight except a few, like Bors, Percivale or Galahad) having sex out of wedlock. Pellinore comes to mind: he raped a peasant woman (well, "half-raped" to paraphrase Malory's turn of phrase) who later gave birth to one of the best knights of the Round Table, namely Torre. As for Arthur, he has numerous bastards in the medieval texts. That is something the Victorian era and its Arthurian Revival prudishly glossed over, which may account for our conveniently forgetting it, but the lusty sex was always there in the source texts for everyone to see and read.

"Occasionnally I'm callous and strange."

I'm pretty sure she faked being a virgin, not because of some taboo, but because she and Leontes had been childhood sweethearts and basically been together since they were kids. If she had lost her virginity to anyone other than him, that would mean she was unfaithful at some point automatically.

There are different standards for different classes of women. When we see Arthur "free-styling" it, he was a nobody doing it with a nobody.

Gwen is a lady of a higher class. She is expected to maintain her virtue until marriage.

Further, it's possible that the girl from the first scene is the village slut. There's always a village slut and she is exempt from the rules for the most part. You can tell Arthur's friend wasn't too bent out of shape about it. He probably expected as much.

So, yes, you can have it both ways.

Which legend ?

Arthur has been retold countless times, and every time things have been added and left out.

The issue with this is that the retelling is poor, not that it wouldnt be "faithful".

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