Camelot: a Xena and porn acting in the lot

A nice idea trashed.

It could have been great series: a worthy legend, action, sword
fighting, adventure, some modern times touch like political intrigues,
sex(though soft playboy style), blood, some few good actors (Green,
Purefoy, Fines) and scenery of Ireland.

It looked as if all you need more is some good script, money for
decorations and there you have it - a strong contestant to GoT.

Yea,well..talk about what could have been..Nothing is there how it
could have been, nothing is great (except Eva Green's body that is).

Where to start? The script is a mess. They want to show you political
intrigue, but they show you characters who act like brain-dead from the
soap operas. They want to show you a history - they show you a cheap
Xena version of history with 'armies' of 20 men, all clad in modern
looking leather or cow bags, smoking pipes, looking at perfect mirrors
and fighting with rip-off Chinese Excalibur swords (along with 6th age
looking ones).

Then they really want you to show some good acting. People talk
politics, they eat, *beep* and pretend to do everything what we've seen
on Rome, Game of Thrones or Borgias. It's just they do it boring,
unexplainable clumsy and stupid like.

Main character - King Arthur (Bower) might be a good lady-boy with
those ever wondering model-eyes. He tries hard to be a king with that
funny looking pony tail of his royal hair, but impresses little, hence
he's more of a village king (which is the problem really. It's known,
that people of Britain were scarce during Arthurian times, but
seriously - not that whole country is a merely several Roman
forts-ruins and couple villages.) The boy is a young party leader how
come some like Gawain be impressed?

Merlin is even worse. That creepy rapist-sadist-serial killer smile,
porn trailer horny narrating and advices worth of paranoid
schizophrenic man - that is our wizard??

Who apparently have some magic powers after all, but is a pussy to use
them wisely ( a wizard comes from a word 'wise', not creepy looking
whiz) And there's a fitting line in the series (I mean it): "Merlin,
you are making no sense..." Duh. And then he comes again with that
serial killer smile! Oh please make it stop Merlin, you haven't given
any wise advise, always trying to show off and do something stupid. Oh
no, not that smile, please, ah, there you did it again..

His knights. All leather clad men, evenly dumb, glorious. Includes a
black guy for no reason (and female Asian not playing a knight, but Eva
Green's little helper - they even put an excuse line how come an Asian
got in 6th age Britain and got influential). Now I'm not a racist, but
come on! Why not to make King Arthur black lady boy (they've nearly
done it anyway) for the sake of political correctness. And don't tell
me about slaves, please.

Kings enemies. Eva Green must be a voyeuristic, so the only reason
she's in these series - to show her beautiful body and teach "Arthur"
how to act. The nun is evil and a worthy 2nd "bad character".

Purefoy does his same role of hardened warrior, with ambition, military
prowess, strength, and chronic voice - we've seen it before. Boring.

The Queen mother? Smiling, lusty soap opera character.

I could go on and on. Castles look cheap - they live in Camelot for the
whole season and they can't fix the damn roof. OK, king doesn't want
this. How about the castle then? In the beginning and still in the end
it looks as if that lady boy king has got a group of squatters settled
in after some tsunami in an old forgotten place.

There's lack of suspense, yet full of over timed silly dialogs and plot
holes. It's good they've made their senses and canceled the second
season. I would imagine this modern vision of Mordred - a cliché full
of a sadistic emo transsexual, probably some Indian or Samoan decent.

Please...