Jamie Campbell Bower played Gellert Grindelwald; he was also Antony in Sweeney Todd and one of the Volturi in the Twilight movies.
I don't like this series much, so I'm intrigued by your review. I came out of it feeling that they made Morgan extra super evil in order to gloss over the fact that she's actually been completely screwed, their father was a rapist and Merlin was a rape-abetter. Arthur hasn't done anything and suddenly he's got all these people following him and they are really Merlin's crew, not his.
It's really pretty. I like the scenery and I appreciate that the costumes aren't Renaissance or later for something that happened in the 5th-6th c, but I guess I have the problem with this show where I don't actually like anyone in it except possibly Kay and Arthur himself, Arthur being a kid after all and Kay being kind of amusing. I want to like Morgan but of course they have conflated her with Morgause and made her extra super evil so that we don't have any sympathy for her at all, even though she has been screwed.
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Date: 2011-03-02 12:00 am (UTC)I don't like this series much, so I'm intrigued by your review. I came out of it feeling that they made Morgan extra super evil in order to gloss over the fact that she's actually been completely screwed, their father was a rapist and Merlin was a rape-abetter. Arthur hasn't done anything and suddenly he's got all these people following him and they are really Merlin's crew, not his.
It's really pretty. I like the scenery and I appreciate that the costumes aren't Renaissance or later for something that happened in the 5th-6th c, but I guess I have the problem with this show where I don't actually like anyone in it except possibly Kay and Arthur himself, Arthur being a kid after all and Kay being kind of amusing. I want to like Morgan but of course they have conflated her with Morgause and made her extra super evil so that we don't have any sympathy for her at all, even though she has been screwed.