Merlin (TV Series)

Merlin is a BBC1 TV show airing in early evening on Saturdays, its currently in its second season and has taken over from the lamentable Robin Hood. I've always been a huge mythology, fantasy fan and one of my (if not most) favourite novels is The Once and Future King by TS White, this novel is one of the best ever written and gives us many of the common aspects of Arthurian legend. This book along with Morte D'arthur writtne by Thomas Mallory in the 13th century gives us the core of the Arthurian legend, i.e. Arthur, Uther, Merlin, Guineviere, Launcelot, Excalibur, Camelot. sword in the stone. Just listing the items shows how rich the Arthurian legends are, ...  Read the complete review

I love mythology and fantastical adventure stories, and so when the BBC announced that they would be showing a new adaptation of the Arthurian legend, I was pretty excited! And I haven't been disappointed. The first series of any show is, I guess, always tentative, and allows viewers to decide whether they love it or are indifferent, or even hate it. It is true, then, that there were some issues exposed at the beginning of this story which may have put some people off (including my brother actually), mainly being the fact that it does tend to stray a little from the legend! However, there are already varying accounts of the legend, and for the ...  Read the complete review

I love this program its hilarious, its basically based on king Arthur and Merlin in there younger days when Arthur is just a prince and his father Uther Pendragon is king and few know of Merlins magic. The friendship between Arthur and Merlin is fantastic its so funny to watch i don't think Arthur as ever been spoken to like merlin speaks to him and it generally leaves him speechless or coming back at Merlin with witty remarks (Merlin is Arthurs servant) you also get the impression Arthur thinks a lot of Merlin but he would never admit it lol and can be slightly cruel at times to cover his feelings like for example he fired Merlin once and then when he realised Merlin ...  Read the complete review

Oh this is a fun little program isn't it! What a perfect series to watch on a Saturday evening. It's family friendly, funny, has a bit of suspense, mostly well written... Like with the rest of my reviews, I'm not going to go into details regarding who's playing what character, the storylines, etc - all of this you can find for yourselves online. Instead I shall concentrate on my own thoughts and opinions on this series. I remember watching the series when it started over a year ago. I was unsure as to whether I would enjoy it, as I've always liked the Arthur/Merlin story, and was a little apprehensive about which direction the BBC would take it. ...  Read the complete review

As a review, "It's crap" would have been perfectly adequate, even if not very descriptive. Ok, the whole King Arthur thing only exists in folklore and, to this end, nobody can say what is fact and what is fiction - but why does the BBC think this is enough reason to do away with anything factual at all? Just for the sake of example... The program features jousting, which wasn't introduced into Britain until at least the 14th century, and I am all for equality but there wouldn't have been any black characters around at the time. The original tale was simple. King Arthur united the warlords in England with the help of Merlin and ...  Read the complete review