Mr Head is very good ... but actually my favourites are Merlin and Gaius ... it's not often one sees Richard Wilson doing 'straight' acting ... and he's very low key and enjoyable in this (remarkably low key given the temptations that wig must give him to fling about a bit ...)
I also think Morgana and Gwen work very hard or their actresses do despite the issue of Gwen being relentlessly Stoical, Nice and Sensible and Morgana having to veer wildly between Hints of Future EEEEvil Morgana Or Will She be? She is obviously going to be either a Misguided Freedom Fighter or she is going to be like Elphaba in Wicked
The one person I find very difficult is Arthur ... I wish they'd cast someone else - I can hear the lines - the same lines in my head - spoken by a more subtle actor and making him a really interesting person ... but I'm not getting it Bradley ... try a bit *less*
And how can you have anachronisms in Arthur? (this is not aimed directly - it really is a general pondering) I mean the stories have magic in them ... and Lancelot was made up by soppy French poet and half the knights are welsh and the rest of them are ... random ... there is no one version of Arthur or Merlin ... so what's an 'anachronism'?
And you do know that they are all charging round a French chateau right? Which was probably built after most of them are meant to have existed?
BUT who cares, it's good hearted, fairly well written - OK doesn't stand up to the Sarah Jane Adventures but ... what does at the moment? And it WIPES the FLOOR with that terrible Robin Hood (Anthony Minghella - I hope you are writhing in shame),
I can certainly see a Merlin and an Arthur ... and even a sort of kids TV friendly Uther - I mean he is a flawed King.
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I also think Morgana and Gwen work very hard or their actresses do despite the issue of Gwen being relentlessly Stoical, Nice and Sensible and Morgana having to veer wildly between Hints of Future EEEEvil Morgana Or Will She be? She is obviously going to be either a Misguided Freedom Fighter or she is going to be like Elphaba in Wicked
The one person I find very difficult is Arthur ... I wish they'd cast someone else - I can hear the lines - the same lines in my head - spoken by a more subtle actor and making him a really interesting person ... but I'm not getting it Bradley ... try a bit *less*
And how can you have anachronisms in Arthur? (this is not aimed directly - it really is a general pondering) I mean the stories have magic in them ... and Lancelot was made up by soppy French poet and half the knights are welsh and the rest of them are ... random ... there is no one version of Arthur or Merlin ... so what's an 'anachronism'?
And you do know that they are all charging round a French chateau right? Which was probably built after most of them are meant to have existed?
BUT who cares, it's good hearted, fairly well written - OK doesn't stand up to the Sarah Jane Adventures but ... what does at the moment? And it WIPES the FLOOR with that terrible Robin Hood (Anthony Minghella - I hope you are writhing in shame),
I can certainly see a Merlin and an Arthur ... and even a sort of kids TV friendly Uther - I mean he is a flawed King.