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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
Doctor Who does have the saving grace of happily, even gleefully, abandoning old continuity if a new writer wants to.
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I’d also like to nominate the extended King Arthur milieu.
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Thousands of writers across hundreds of years writing in multiple languages. All with access to only a fraction of the earlier material to derive their work from. Everyone wanting to insert their own new self-insert knight.
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I keep thinking back to that historian who was asked whether the musical Camelot, the NBC miniseries Merlin or Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail was the most "authentic" and he said Monty Python easily
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
The thing being, King Arthur was originally just a bunch of wacky stories Random folk tales and legends stitched together with one vague throughline of continuity The absurd Monty Python string of meandering comedy gags is extremely true to that spirit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
The way he just keeps on randomly recruiting knights, the way random bad guys and hazards and whole enemy factions just kind of wander in and out of the story, the weird dream logic behind all the magic that everyone just accepts It's all quite true to the text
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
Whereas any modernization that tries to adapt Arthur into an epic saga that has a specific point to it - the romance of Arthur, Lancelot and Guinevere's doomed love triangle, a political allegory about Merlin trying to establish a stable state - is massively editing the stories
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
The things that modern Arthur enthusiasts think of as very important, the "metaplot" about the prophecy of his doom at Camlann after Lancelot's betrayal etc, is all stuff added relatively late and not nearly as prominent as modernizations make it seem
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It's like how modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations always build the story around Moriarty being his nemesis when originally Moriarty was introduced in the story where he died and him somehow causing all of the other stories was an absurd retcon
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