Whether an Athurian story tries for "accuracy" or not, I'm always going to side-eye any interpretation that misses the many great women.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
A magic-heavy story that misses Morgan Le Fay, Nimue, Guinevere, Elaine, Igraine and the rest? Nah, bro.
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Also - and this is just personal preference - but as cool as giant magic war elephants are, the lack of dragons is a Mistake.
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But, on the plus side, I will give props to a racially diverse Roman-era Londinium and a Round Table rooted in working class knights.
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I mean, yeah, letting Arthur have a Kung-fu buddy is a little naff, but they don't show him actually using martial arts ever, so [ehh noise]
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But I mean. For fuck's sake, would it have killed them to give the one material female character an actual NAME, instead of just "the Mage"?
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Bold assertion: no Arthurian movie has ever been as good as it could be because they all centre the men over the women.
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Have you seen the mists of Avalon TV movie? Still not great, but an improvement
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I was a huge fan as a teenager, but have not revisited....
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As I alluded to a few minutes ago in another response, Mists of Avalon comes with a gigantic astersk.
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Yeah, I've never read them and now never want to.
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Life is too short for books written by monsters.
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