TV Merlin

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I've been a fan all along, although I gather that lots of medievalists or other Arthurian folks dismissed it pretty quickly. I've been watching the second season as it unfolds when it turns up on Youtube. (The BBC has stuff removed pretty quickly, though). The story has been goofed with a bit, there's too much magic, too many mythical creatures, and a few other problems, but the basics are still there. In the past two weeks we've seen the beginning of the end, as far as I'm concerned - the love triangle between Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot has been set up, although it's broadcast at family show time in England, so I don't expect that there will ever be any sex. I guess it's the hallmark of a classic story that the ending seems inevitable to me but I am sad about it already, ages before it comes (in this version). Chronological oddity from episode 4 - Hengist turns up alive in Mercia (not Kent), at a time that Uther Pendragon has already been king of Camelot for a while.