Scary but true

[b_hallward]

Frighteningly, this is one of the best description of Merlin I've come across:

Arthuriana meets Jeeves and Wooster meets Smallville.

That's basically it.

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[heather]

*laughs*

[b_hallward]

It's funny 'cause it's true.

And your icon: lol.

[p_zeitgeist]

I read somewhere or other that the producers were/are consciously using Smallville as a model. Which horrifies me beyond telling, and I can only hope they get over it; but also explains a lot.

[b_hallward]

I think they have a somewhat ambivalent relationship to Smallville: they realize that they're using the "and what if they met as young men and became friends" set-up and have the same desire to treat their source material irreverently, making it sharply contemporary even if it does some violence to the underlying myth. (And, incidentally, rely on the same mode of intense male friendship that, if it clicks the way they need it to, comes out slashy as hell.)

Yet it seems from the material I've read that at least some of the producers are themselves slightly horrified, while able to see and acknowledge the debt. So that bodes well.

[ras_elased]

HEEEEE!!!! OMG, yes, that is the perfect description! ♥

[b_hallward]

It really is! It frightens and amuses me.

[b_hallward]

Sadly, yes.

Arthur as a drone (but secretly dissatisfied this narrow trivial life he's expected to live); Merlin disagreeing with his choices, sartorial or otherwise (and secretly wanting him to wear no clothes at all). Horrible scrapes involving inadvertent engagements! Country houses! Magic!