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124ARTHURIANA name is misspelled on-screen, and he is not acknowledged in the final credits. The producers seem to have got the Kennedy/Camelot connection backwards. The assertion that 'clearly Merlin is something more than just an evil sorcerer,' and the depiction of Arthur as a 'cattle boy' who made good might give one pause as well. And this is the first I've heard that Malory was imprisoned in the Tower of London (have they confused Sir Thomas with Sir Walter, perchance?). I also find the underlying ideology unpalatable. Latent in the conservative, veritably Gibbonesque historiography of the production's earlier moments, particularly in its treatment of the 'Dark Ages' and its touting of the Romans as heralds of Western Civilization (as opposed to the barbaric Celts, whose 'primitive' religion 'included human sacrifice), the ideological subtext emerges unvarnished in a disastrous finale, where narration and imagery collaborate to sabotage the relatively objective stance that has be
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124ARTHURIANA name is misspelled on-screen, and he is not acknowledged in the final credits. The producers seem to have got the Kennedy/Camelot connection backwards. The assertion that 'clearly Merlin is something more than just an evil sorcerer,' and the depiction of Arthur as a 'cattle boy' who made good might give one pause as well. And this is the first I've heard that Malory was imprisoned in the Tower of London (have they confused Sir Thomas with Sir Walter, perchance?). I also find the underlying ideology unpalatable. Latent in the conservative, veritably Gibbonesque historiography of the production's earlier moments, particularly in its treatment of the 'Dark Ages' and its touting of the Romans as heralds of Western Civilization (as opposed to the barbaric Celts, whose 'primitive' religion 'included human sacrifice), the ideological subtext emerges unvarnished in a disastrous finale, where narration and imagery collaborate to sabotage the relatively objective stance that has be
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