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Brought to by a nonnie on the last post mentioning Kyou Kara Maou, which was such an unpleasant fannish experience that I can't even see the series title without feeling cranky. How could such a fun show produce so many unpleasant fans?
(No ill will towards you, KKM-watching nonnie! Enjoy the series as you like, just be glad you weren't around when the fandom was actually active and tearing pieces out of each other.)
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It's a fun series, but man, the fandom was the worst that I've ever been active in.
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One thing I really like about the series is how it straddles the line between being distinctively its own series (with its own sense of humor and characters) while also being much more of an Arthurian adaptation versus just being more loosely inspired by the Arthurian mythos. I read Chretien de Troyes a long time ago, for instance, and it's much more of an adaptation of some of his stuff (or Le Morte d'Arthur) than some of the other books I've read, that more tell their own stories set in the universe.
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They're my favorite Arthurian adaptation too (close second to The Once and Future King), and partly because they're such good adaptations, and partly because I read them so young, I sort of think of them as my Arthurian canon. So whenever I read another author's version if they have Lancelot being better than Gawain or something, I might enjoy it but part of me is still like "that's so WRONG."
I do love that distinctive Gerald Morris humor, and the relationship between Terence and Gawain. I think the only other series it really reminds me of is Catherine Jinx's Pagan Chronicles--have you read them?
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My favorites were the first two books. I adored Terence and Gawain's interaction so much too, and I'm a bit sad that they weren't the main characters in most of the others, but I always got a thrill whenever they got mentioned/showed up (especially when everyone's all like there's something so fey-like or whatever about him. And it makes him seem so cool, and then I remember what a completely lost little kid he was at the start of the series, and I love how he's grown up.)
So whenever I read another author's version if they have Lancelot being better than Gawain or something, I might enjoy it but part of me is still like "that's so WRONG."
Aaaaaah! I know exactly what you mean! Whenever an adaptation has Gawain as being some kind of boor, it just throws me from the story because in my head, he's not like that at all.
I haven't read The Pagan Chronicles, but just looking up the description of the books online, that sounds like something worth checking out. Thanks!
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(That right there is a question I never thought I'd ask.)
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