It's so much easier to write Nimue as a jealous, treacherous student who used her wiles against Merlin than to engage with their differences in age and power, Merlin's facilitation of the rape of Igrain; to grapple with a society that feared female power & denied them teaching.
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The 1998 TV adaptation is far from perfect, but it's the most compelling Arthurian version around precisely because it tries, so hard, to care about the women and to examine how their treatment doesn't fit with the narrative of a perfect golden age.
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And this is why Zack Snyder's version will be garbage: he does not write women. He very, very aggressively writes Male Stories: any Snyder-esque take on Arthur is doomed to failure before it starts, because I can already see him picturing Morgan le Fay in a sexy backless dress.
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You DO realize that women have different facets that allow them to be nurturing AND aggressive right?
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LMFAO aw sweet lamb you think Zach Snyder can depict a woman's facets





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You seriously think he can't?
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He super can’t. He’s mediocre with dudes and terrible with women.
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Based on this comment, you either haven't seen any of Zack Snyder's films or you watched them but didn't pay attention to them & fundamentally misinterpreted them as what you described, even though they're the polar opposite. So which is it?
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This news just in: it’s possible for different people to watch a thing and have radically different interpretations without either of them missing the point! That you feel the need to aggressively defend one of the world’s most famous directors says more about you than me.
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I mean. Yes, we can have radically different interpretations, but there's a difference between discussing whether or not the Three Ghosts were Ebenezer Scrooge's imagination & saying Scrooge learned nothing & let a sick kid die. The latter is a clear misreading of the work.
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Granted, but it's also possible to argue that a creator can fail in their intended execution. Snyder can say all he wants that he envisioned Suckerpunch to be a feminist work, but I - and others - can cite chapter and verse on the film to argue that he failed badly.
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What did you think of Buffy?
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