Joseph Fiennes and Eva Green cast in Camelot TV series

[KB24]

Whatever. I'm tired of you saying my statements are always wrong and incorrect, and I don't appreciate the way you get away with being nasty to myself and other posters just because you write Trek books. We are not just random names for you to gloss over with your supposed higher wit or intelligence. Way to make fans and readers, by the way.

I'm setting you to ignore, as my enjoyment of this forum has significantly lessened since you've been insulting me in thread after thread. You want to write a dozen posts a day telling everyone that you know everything and they don't, go ahead. I won't be reading.

 

[Christopher]

I'm not trying to be nasty, I'm just trying to be accurate. I think the problem is that I take a more scholarly and impersonal tone here than a lot of people do, and people who expect a more conversational, personal tone see that as cold and assume it's intentionally so. I regret that some people misread my intentions that way, but this is simply who I am.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I said the dialogue in Spartacus was bad, not the attempt at historically accurate sex. Are you trying to contradict me in every thread now?

I don't react to people, I react to statements. If I see an assertion that I read as factually inaccurate, I will post a response to clarify the facts. Who made the statement is irrelevant to me. And forgive me, but I have no idea who you are; your username is just another random collection of letters and numbers to me, not standing out from all the others in that vein, and I'm not familiar with the performer in your avatar so that doesn't stand out from the crowd for me either. So I have no reason to single you out for criticism. Sometimes I misread a statement and assume it's saying something it isn't; if I misconstrued your intent, I apologize. But as I recall, the statement was ambiguous as to its intent. You did reference the sexuality in a different show as part of the "modern" impositions in the same sentence in which you mentioned Spartacus, so while you did not overtly link the sex in Spartacus to your criticism, a reader could reasonably construe your statement as implicitly doing so.

Are you a robot?

Because that would be cool.

 

[Admiral_Young]

April 1 is the debut of the first episode!!! A synopsis of the plot and a pic are included in the link below. I'm really excited about this.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=72546

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Here are some more preview pics:

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The reason Camelot needs to be crazy sleazy sex and violence is because modern audiences are going to find it impossible to relate to the goals and customs of early medieval people (or earlier than that, maybe fall of the Roman Empire era).

The story is basically a wealthy elite lording it over the peasantry and squabbling among themselves for power. In some tellings, religion is a big factor, probably not this time around, unless it's paganism, but once again: who cares? We've got no dog in this fight.

To make these people relatable in a modern context means making them too modern to be plausible, and the result would be cheesy. So the entertainment factor isn't going to come from audience identification, but from more purient things.

Plus it's on Starz. I'm not expecting Masterpiece Theater.

 

[Skywalker]

I'll check it out, but I'm expecting it to get crushed (at least in terms of quality) by Game of Thrones.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I hope this is the theme song:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGpVcdqeS0[/yt]

 

[Aragorn]

It's on Starz? Does that mean Eva Green will be taking her top (and bottom) off every episode?

 

[Admiral_Young]

^ One can only hope.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Those pictures look interesting. Hopefully it will get screened here on one of other digital networks and not paytv.

 

[JD]

Just noticed this thread. I love Arthurian legends, and so far the two Starz series I've seen (Spartacus and Pillars of the Earth) have been pretty cool, so I'm really looking forward to this. I just hope that they put the episodes of this (and Torchwood) up on the Netflix/Star Play like they did for Pillars and Spartacus.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Kind of a nonsequitor but do you guys remember the McGyver episode where he gets KO'd and transported back to Camelot?

 

[JD]

Sorry, I forgot to ask in my other post if anyone has heard anything about trailers for this? I didn't read the whole thread so if someone posted one, I'm sorry.

 

[pork3]

Kind of a nonsequitor but do you guys remember the McGyver episode where he gets KO'd and transported back to Camelot?

I do, horrible episode btw.

-Jamman

 

[Aragorn]

Kind of a nonsequitor but do you guys remember the McGyver episode where he gets KO'd and transported back to Camelot?

How many times was MacGyver knocked unconscious only to wake up in another time?

I remember the western dream episode he had and when he woke up, didn't he have something from the wild west in his possession? Like his Swiss army knife stopped a bullet or something?

 

[Roshi]

Kind of a nonsequitor but do you guys remember the McGyver episode where he gets KO'd and transported back to Camelot?

It's the one where we learn his first name, Angus. It looked like he had been ashamed of his first name for the 5 previous seasons. How could he be ashamed of Angus? It rocks!

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

The story is basically a wealthy elite lording it over the peasantry and squabbling among themselves for power. In some tellings, religion is a big factor, probably not this time around, unless it's paganism, but once again: who cares? We've got no dog in this fight.

Audiences can find entertainment value and a rooting interest in all sorts of things where in a real life context such a rooting interest wouldn't exist - crime lords fighting for control, etc. There are any number of historical dramas in film and television which were about elites fighting for control which have been successful, although they usually present a view of the period they're portraying that's at least somewhat anachronistic (if not very much so), with the side we're invited to root for being more progressive, benevolent and democratic than it would have been in reality. That's certainly been the case with the Arthurian legend.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Kind of a nonsequitor but do you guys remember the McGyver episode where he gets KO'd and transported back to Camelot?

How many times was MacGyver knocked unconscious only to wake up in another time?

I remember the western dream episode he had and when he woke up, didn't he have something from the wild west in his possession? Like his Swiss army knife stopped a bullet or something?

I don't recall what he had exactly and vaguely remember that episode. And I'm kind of derailing the topic a bit, but for the medieval one, when he wakes up, the EMT guy is Merlin and so he thinks it was just a dream until he reaches into his pocket, only to find Merlin's pouch that they defeated Morgana with. I believe there was gunpowder in that pouch. How is this possible?

Ok back to the thread. Joseph Fiennes when not a brooding FBI agent is really good in these period pieces. Eva Green I'm not too familiar with other than Casino Royale and I think I'll check this out when it comes on.

 

[Greg Cox]

with the side we're invited to root for being more progressive, benevolent and democratic than it would have been in reality. That's certainly been the case with the Arthurian legend.

It's simple really. The side that's speaking with American accents are the good guys. The side speaking with upper-class British accents are the bad guys.

At least that's how Hollywood usually does it!