What is Merlin?
Merlin is a show that speaks of magic, friendship, knights and the like.
is in fact the birth of friendship between Arthur Young destined to become king, and Merlin himself, a little boy 'nerd if he lived today. There
action, light humor, sympathy skiing, slashabili couples of all types. In short, something simple and pleasant, loosely based on Arthurian legend.
Why Merlin and legends are like cabbage?
Yes, Merlin is on the Arthurian legends, stories about the huge loaf of intricate wet with blood, murder, incest, suicide, love, sex. Just those.
The problem is that the only Merlin thing that legends are names of characters and a faint hint of armor.
Even the place where the environment is different.
This is not a magazine, but only a quotation. A review does not merely take their names, then mix them and sow them on a show, but to analyze the different spirit of the law.
(For examples of reinterpretations well done Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Rome, Roman history)
speak of places. The stars of the legends are the places, the magical time, England (or Wales), Camelot. Even
Merin is set in Camelot, but all references Geography is erased. We have not Saxon, we have no Roman remains, we do not understand well and where we are in that era.
addition there are the windows in the castle, which is absolutely impossible if you really want to talk about the legends of Merlin. We
King Arthur (Arthur), as in the legend, the future prince of Camelot and the son of Uther. As in the original law his birth is linked to a terrible spell that has hit Igraine. We then
Merlin (Merlin) who is a young magician. If you think vecchiardo de The Sword in the Stone but you need to think again because Merlin Young is just like in the early texts that speak of him. In fact, Geoffrey of Monmouth presents him as a child at her first meeting with Uther, and then it is probable that (along the lines of the narration) Merlin is by no means old.
Uther is King and is a vague negative Vigur Island as we bring him back to the more recent legislation.
But the similarities end there.
Morgana is Uther's adopted daughter and sister of Morgause. It may seem strange. In any case there is nothing serious, just as it is so amazing to have Geneva made a servant.
course, Geneva is a rich and noble woman in the legends, but to show the sense of having made a noble can not afford to investigate the idea of love beyond the need of the kingdom.
The real problems are the other characters.
Despite what you may think, little mention of the Arthurian legends, King Arthur and the Knights BOTH around him. Knights are at the heart of the Arthurian legend.
Take any person fond of legends, and this will tell you that for sure of his favorite character is Gaheris and Gawain or Palamedes or (like me) Mordred.
The knights, ladies and their adventures are what make the living legends.
This very important part, the heart of the legends, however, is completely erased in Merlin where the names of the riders are taken randomly and equally applied randomly on the show.
recall some of them. In the first series
Sir Bedivere dies. It does not appear either, but a simple knight reaches Arthur and Bedivere tells him that he is dead. Wondering who is Bedivere?
It 's the right arm of Arthur, the one who has survived the defeat of Camlann and threw the sword into the lake. And 'one who has fought alongside Sir Kai and lost a hand in battle. It 'also the one who, in the French tradition is subsequently replaced Lancelot (Merlin character made well enough, instead).
Pellinore (yes, the famous king who chases throughout the Britannia barking the Beast), and Owain Tristan (the son of Morgaine and famous star of the most amusing adventure of the poet Chretien de Troyes) are equally killed without much thought.
Nimue, Lady of the Lake, it becomes a cruel witch.
Nimue in the legend is also known as Lady of the Lake even though his figure is often confused with that of Viviana. In Merlin
Viviana becomes a spoiled girl who attempts to seduce Arthur. Neither is the fairy of the lake, and neither is, for now, the one who should be powerful enough to lock up or kill Merlin in a cave. Because neither of the two? Why Nimue is dead and Vivian is not a magician.
The Lady in the Lake Merlin is a girl / monster named Freya, whose name is mysteriously taken from the mythology of Merlin and launched in Norman with the randomness of the time. Other characters are
altered, in fact, they are made entirely by borrowing someone else's name only and stripped of everything. Another important example is
Mordred. Who is it? And 'the illegitimate son of King Arthur and Morgause stepsister, half brother of Gawain, Gaheris, Gareth and Agravaine (and sometimes Clarissant). Mordred is a knight, a prince, is tormented, is a traitor, is very close to Agravaine, is a murderess and a parricide. In some versions
Mordred and Guinevere become lovers and plot against Arthur, Mordred and others are in his half-brother Agravaine plotting. In almost all versions of Arthur's attempts to kill Mordred when he was newborn.
And Merlin has become a stranger, a child, a magician who for some reason it is intended to kill Arthur. The whole tragedy of incest related to blood and this complex character is wiped away with a magic wand. But there is still hope for him, is a child for now and hope that his character evolve in interesting ways.
To conclude this section, there is a limit to adaptation of something.
For example, take Harry Potter and make it a TV show where Harry is a football player, Ron and Hermione are his parents and Severus Snape is their dog and you'll get what Merlin did with the Arthurian legends.
than Merlin legends: the transition from first to second series
After finally made it clear that we are not faced with a series on Arthurian legend, let's look just like a fantasy series Merlin unpretentious dignified transpositions of cycles Breton .
We're talking about an essential part of fantasy: the magic . In Merlin, the magic is treated in a perfectly sensible: magic words, and never anything too powerful so as to allow the protagonist to be in difficulties.
Moreover, as in a real show, Merlin must conceal his magic because this was forbidden by the king. E 'then forced into odd, tragic or hilarious situations where he must save the day without being detected.
Merlin will be the hero, but without the glory.
The situation goes like this for two series in which Arthur and Merlin knows best he develops a bromance for real relationships. Yet he says nothing
Merlin to Arthur. Mistrust? Maybe.
The real problem the situation is that each episode is cold, structured property on the same principles and there limit the number of feasible plots in this scheme. In the long run is boring, formulaic, stale.
Another very important part of Merlin is the set of relationships loving, friendly and pseudoamorosi . Merlin
part of the premises with clear enough about the 'amorous couple' in the first series.
Arthur is clearly fond of Morgana. The two grew up together and tease as many times I have seen both brothers and sisters who are romantically attracted to people. Hints of the Arthur / Morgana there are, in fact. We then
Arthur and Merlin, for the fans because of the slash on the show (and was told by the producers themselves and supported actors), the slash has significant importance, the bromance is a fundamental part of many TV series including today's Merlin.
So yes, there are also hints of a possible love affair between Arthur and Merlin. Gwen
We then show that friendly and fond of Morgana (to give the possibility to enjoy the fangirls of femslash, or so says Ange Coulby in a video) and also with Merlin.
I would say the most acclaimed pairing almost be canon (between flirtation and seduction) is just what between Gwen and Merlin .
course, you could also talk about Lancelot and Gwen, but that is obvious but very believable.
Well, the first series provides a web of relationships that evolve slowly.
And then began the second set and what happens?
The story goes on the same basis: magic, adventure and the like, but suddenly relationships between characters change drastically .
What happened? Probably
producers have opened a book Arthurian (usually this is Thomas Malory) and said:
"For all the operas of Wagner, but look, Morgana is actually an enemy of Arthur! It also has a sister named Morgause e. .. Oh God, Geneva and Arthur They eventually married "(And not much at the end).
Yes, they realized that the plot of romantic relationships that had previously did not know where is going. I find no other explanation for the sudden turn had the first and second series.
is therefore absolutely see an unexplained Arthur suddenly attracted (madly in love) by Gwen after it ignored a whole series and for 'ignored' mean 'not even looked at'.
The relationship that had evolved in the first series between Merlin and Gwen completely disappears without trace or explanation.
Even the attitude of Merlin to Arthur change, becoming less friendly.
In the first set we had witnessed the development of a friendship that surpassed the initial suspicion 'poor / rich magician / snob Prince' have never happened. In short, they did not know how to carry forward the friendship between Arthur and Merlin and simply have rewound the tape and they made it start again. We then
Morgana. Also in the idea of wanting to make love Gwen and Arthur as in canon, Morgan suddenly moves away from Arthur.
There are, once again, explanations.
The second set looks more like a desperate attempt to tie the Arthurian legend of the first set after protests that a continuation of the series.
The result?
a mess, both for fans and for fans of the legends of Merlin.
(For fans of the Arthurian legends, among other things, was given the sop of Geraint, a knight in the tradition is very important and has an entire story sull'affascinante, but male-love story with Enid).
A hermit crab and a half out of five for the huge mess that Merlin is doing.
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