2011-04-13, 17:27 | Link #45 |
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Yet, most of the western world is unfamiliar with the legend of Spartacus, which gives them more leeway to do what they want. The new show, Camelot, however... has no such luxury to do so, yet they did it anyway (and thus butchered the story so badly that you can't even really consider it to be Arthurian anymore). The show has kept to the finer points, with Spartacus, Crixus and Oenameus (think I spelled it wrong, but whatever) leading the revolt, and as long as they keep the major points in line, the show will do fine. As said before, Camelot messed up so badly, it would be the equivalent of Spartacus killing Crixus in the arena in episode 3. Yeah, that bad.
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2011-04-13, 20:57 | Link #46 |
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well, Camelot (which i think needs its own thread) is a completely new retelling. they decided not to go for accuracy. which is why we have knights we've never heard of and stuff like that. instead we'll get the general idea of how he came to power, but the way he got there will be completely different fro what we know.
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2011-04-13, 21:06 | Link #47 |
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I enjoyed Blood and Sand, and Gods of the Arena. I'm awfully sad that Andy Whitfield is having such a hard time with his cancer, and that they were forced to replace him for the title role, yet we can wish Andy the best of luck and hope this new fellow will be as good as he.
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2011-04-14, 11:46 | Link #49 |
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you're assuming people know that much about the legend. the extent of knowledge the average person has on the subject is: Arthur pulls sword from stone. Merlin is a wizard. He establishes Camelot and has knights that sit at a round table. if you're lucky, they'll know Lancelot and how he stabbed himself by accident.
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Still, there's key points you can't overlook/change, and Spartacus got those right so far, now we just have to see if they can do the battles right. Vesuvius will be one of the first examples of that, and I pray they do it right.
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2011-04-16, 05:40 | Link #51 | |
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2011-04-16, 12:10 | Link #53 |
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i know this is the spartacus thread, but i'mma talk about camelot anyways. they reworked the lady of the lake myth and how excalibur came to be. its a retelling in the sense that the very basic elements of the story are there, and everything else they can rework to their liking.
also, i have no idea about a battle at Vesuvius, and i took latin and roman history for 4 years..
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2011-04-16, 14:07 | Link #55 |
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by that, i meant i don't know much about spartacus, despite the fact that i took a fair amount of roman history and latin. its one of those things where you get a general idea of what happened, and that's about it. that allows for the directors to have a lot of creative freedom when it comes to retelling the story, as with Spartacus and Camelot.
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2011-04-16, 14:18 | Link #56 |
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I can understand having greater freedom, but when you change key things, it doesn't work. Like Oenameus dying in the ludus, didn't happen, because it's a key point that it CAN'T happen. In Camelot, when you successfully prevent Mordred's existence, how is the legend going to end?
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2011-08-05, 19:58 | Link #60 |
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Just started watching the 1st season. I really like the plot and stuff acting is pretty good too but the one throw off is the slow mo; it's WAY over used. So obvious they tried incorporating the 300 effects of blood and slow-mo into battle. Even the first sex scene is so closely to related to that of the 300 lolz. A good watch still nonetheless.
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