writing, Merlin, Legend of the Seeker, Robin Hood

[deralte]

Let's see, other than my Code Geass marathon, what else has been happening? I managed to get promises of three recommendation letters (finally) so that's all settled (thank god). I hate asking for recommendation letters so yeah. My passport has also been sent off for renewal so I suppose I'll see it again in three months (wah!). Many more query letters have been sent though I still have several more to send before I finish what I'm calling the 'first round' of querying. I want to start writing my next book but I'm undecided about what I should be working on since I have about four different books I could focus on, two of which have parts written of them, plus there are a few short stories I should also finish and try to get published in magazines. It's getting to be a bad habit of mine to start writing short, original stories and not finish them. You'd think fanfic would have given me enough practice in one-shots, but apparently not.

I have been watching quite a few series. BBC's Merlin should probably annoy me more than it does. The plots are simplistic and Merlin is an idiot, but at least the show and most of the characters know Merlin is an idiot as well, and eventually he will grow up, though I doubt his special effects will ever get any better. I kinda like some of their reinterpretations of Arthurian legend and I look forward to reading the fic once the first season ends (also, having Arthur say to Merlin, "There's something about you Merlin." while staring at him is just asking for the slashers to pounce *L*) I've been trying to keep my historical bitching about the whole thing to a minimum.

Legend of the Seeker isn't half bad, though when I heard it was being adapted into a show, I was wondering how they were going to manage. I mean, the main plot is easily adaptable, but sanitizing the rest for television seemed a bit of a struggle. I've been rereading the first book (only the first three are worth it, in case you were wondering) of the Sword of Truth series and it turns out I'd actually forgotten a lot of the gore so they're sanitizing it even more than I imagined. That being said, I think it's not a bad series, even if I keep having massive flashbacks to every episode of Hercules and Xena I ever watched (not to mention LOTRs). The guy they cast as Richard isn't as bulky as I'd imagined but his actings passable. Zedd is great, as is Kahlan (I like that they gave her a few more fighting skills.) Now that I'm rereading the books, I think they missed a few opportunities by not following the beginning plot of the book more closely, but oh well. I'm sure they'll work everything in (hopefully). I've always wanted to see the end of the first book filmed, so I'm looking forward to the end of the season.

We tried to watch BBC series Robin Hood last night, but Kirk and I fell over laughing at how over the top it was, and even my Dad wouldn't agree to watch a second ep. I think the only thing that might make me watch more is that Richard Armitage is very handsome and can act even if his outfit of faux black leather is laughingly bad.

I need to buckle down and study for the GREs this next week, and I'll finally find out my grades from Leeds on Friday. Yay!

My space bar key is squeaky now. This is annoying.

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

So I take it that Legend of the Seeker is not related to The Dark is Rising? I was confused, since the film of TDiR is called Legend of the Seeker, I think (something very similar if not--definitely "the Seeker" in there somewhere). I hate to see it get massacred again, since the film was hardly a resounding success, by all accounts.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

No. It's based on the Sword of the Truth series by Terry Goodkind, but they didn't think the name of the first book, 'Wizard's First Rule' would be a good name for the series since it's kinda limiting, and instead chose Legend of the Seeker since Richard, the main character, becomes the Seeker (who carries the Sword of Truth etc).

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I waffling over giving Merlin a chance. Five minutes into the first episode, I gave up due to low production values. Worth a second look?

There's so much Merlin slash percolating on my flist, btw.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I think it's worth it. They do make do with what they have in terms of production, but I think seeing the new interpretations of Arthurian legend is worth watching Merlin be an idiot. (I kinda hate the dragon though. Oops.) It does get pretty slashy as time goes on. One of the other things that saves it is that Anthony Stewart Head as Uther and the guy playing Merlin's uncle are good actors and quite complex characters, which reflects well after the more bland Arthur and Merlin. Gwen's pretty cool too.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take another look at it. I'm not in the market for another slash pairing, but I can always use another fun show. ;)

[casfic.livejournal.com]

I'm hooked on Merlin. It's total nonsense of course, but as long as you accept it as that, it's quite good nonsense. I've switched off my inner historical critic for the duration, because it's not anywhere near that ballpark, but as fantasy it's OK.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. I only get antsy when they start mentioning real place names or when I take the time to mock the fact that Camelot only has one tavern.

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