Hee! Any idea where the song comes from? It's amazingly appropriate and kind of fascinating.
Is the show any good? All I can tell from the video is that it has a beautiful Morgana and a cute little Mordred :). Do they make Mordred Arthur's child? If so, how do they explain the relationship between Arthur and Morgana (I assume there is no Morgause)?
The revenge tragedy - that depends on the angle you take, I think. In most (especially older) versions of the story, it is not said that Ygraine is unhappy about the things Uther does. She mourns her husband, but she is not shown as resenting Uther. (Of course there is not exactly a lot of characterisation, which I personally interpret as an invitation to do as I please with the material ;-).)
To me, the revenge tragedy certainly makes sense, also because it offers a motivation to some characters that would otherwise be - well, motivationless. Morgana is probably the best example. She is said to hate Guinevere and/or to hate Arthur and, by extension, (most of) his knights, but the old texts are usually pretty vague about the why of it all. I think it's mostly modern authors who bring in the idea that she (and/or Morgause) takes revenge for her mother (and, in T. H. White, for the Gaels) and hates Arthur purely because he is Uther's son.
Errr... I seem to have sort of lost my point along the way, but I guess what I was trying to say is that I'm not sure to what extent the revenge motif was present before Malory came along. In any case, I'm rather partial to it myself ;-).
Thanks very much for reccing my story! I'm really very glad you are enjoying it :D.
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Is the show any good? All I can tell from the video is that it has a beautiful Morgana and a cute little Mordred :). Do they make Mordred Arthur's child? If so, how do they explain the relationship between Arthur and Morgana (I assume there is no Morgause)?
The revenge tragedy - that depends on the angle you take, I think. In most (especially older) versions of the story, it is not said that Ygraine is unhappy about the things Uther does. She mourns her husband, but she is not shown as resenting Uther. (Of course there is not exactly a lot of characterisation, which I personally interpret as an invitation to do as I please with the material ;-).)
To me, the revenge tragedy certainly makes sense, also because it offers a motivation to some characters that would otherwise be - well, motivationless. Morgana is probably the best example. She is said to hate Guinevere and/or to hate Arthur and, by extension, (most of) his knights, but the old texts are usually pretty vague about the why of it all. I think it's mostly modern authors who bring in the idea that she (and/or Morgause) takes revenge for her mother (and, in T. H. White, for the Gaels) and hates Arthur purely because he is Uther's son.
Errr... I seem to have sort of lost my point along the way, but I guess what I was trying to say is that I'm not sure to what extent the revenge motif was present before Malory came along. In any case, I'm rather partial to it myself ;-).
Thanks very much for reccing my story! I'm really very glad you are enjoying it :D.