I like happily ever afters

[nishatalitha]

I spent my weekend playing Settlers II (and completing the entirity of level 8), catching up on housework and adding ebooks to Calibre. I don't feel the need to play Settlers for a while - probably a month or so. Ebooks are still being added, but I think I have managed to get all the ones that were causing the program to hang. Now, to check and edit the metadata on all 10,000 plus of them.

I have also been catching up on Camelot

I have watched all of three episodes (out of five) now.

I like Merlin - he's a creepy warrior mage, as he should be. I'm not convinced about the poet shirts he wears under the forbidding grey outer layers; do you think that's to show he has a softer side?

Arthur is very much a television seventeen or nineteen and acts like a it. I keep wanting to tell him to grow up. And he seems to get all the angst about his parents' death; when does Kay get to mourn? We had this long involved half-episode about their mother (does she ever get a name), and then Sir Ector dies at the end of the second episode, and we get absolutely nothing.

Morgan is calculating, clever and determined. And absolutely gorgeous. I really like this Mogan, even when I don't agree with her life choices.

I had the expected issues with wanting to shake Guinevere. I never liked her much in the stories, so possibly I'm harder than I should be on the character. I kept wanting tell her to grow up and stop acting like a twenty-first century girl (straightened hair and all—thanks, maudlinrose), and had to keep reminding myself that Camelot is a twenty-first century show and they need strong women characters who are not in a box on ice. But she married Leontes anyway, so my opinion of her improved. I did wish she'd enjoyed her wedding night more. And hey, now we get to draw comparisons between David, Bathsheba and Uriah.

Morgan's prettier eyecandy anyway.

...maybe I have too high standards for TV? I kinda expect I will manage to watch about the same about of this as I did of Lost Girl. We'll see how long it holds my interest. I don't tend to like Arthurian or Arthurian based stories very much, so yeah. We'll see. I wish I thought it would be a reboot that this time could end happily.

Comments

[mashugenah.livejournal.com]

I watched the first two episodes and then concluded it just wasn't worth my time.

[nishatalitha.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I'm not arguing that it's good or anything. It's just pretty and currently entertaining.