Overly Sarcastic Productions: The Legend of King Arthur | SkittenReacts

what up ho biscuits it's two girls getting back at it again and we are here on day one of semi quarantine they're closing like a bunch of the casinos a bunch of restaurants they just closed they finally shut down our school district gyms and suffer signing to closed so it's getting pretty real out here in uh in Vegas where we're pretty hard hit I really truly believe that the community is gonna be able to kind of come together and I think it's gonna take a while I don't think it's gonna be a quick or easy process but I do think it's going to happen so for those of you out there who are feeling real stressed out about the coronavirus real stressed out about not working or anything just know that like we're here we love and support y'all we just want to give you some quality entertainment so with all of that said wash your hands and let's get started we are here to watch overly sarcastic productions legend summarized King Arthur King Arthur is one of my favorite but it's really hard to get a grasp so I'm like what's Canon it was not canon because like there's so many different iterations there's so many different stories everybody has a different take on the King Arthur Show King Arthur show King Arthur legend I read like this romance novel at one time that was very very loosely based on the legend of King Arthur it was it was a lot there was a lot going on there's a lot of sex to because it was a romance novel but auntie who's in excited to see Reds take on the legend kind of wish you summarizes and yeah let's go ahead and get started in three two one well everyone knows something about King Arthur whether you watch sword in the stone as a kid listen to Camelot as and adults or just existed in a part of the world where Britain was briefly in charge you know about King Arthur but if you've ever tried to look into King Arthur to try and find some sort of cannon for the story you were probably both confused and disappointed maybe you read somewhere that Merlin aged backwards but then couldn't find any evidence to support that maybe you wanted to know about the Holy Grail and end up reading 50 pages about some Fisher King guy instead right he wanted to learn the sordid history of Arthur and Morgan the phase secret trysts that famously produced the traitor Mordred and we're on early baffle to find zero connection between Mordred and Morgan at all whatever the case while Arthurian mythos is very widespread and most people have at least some knowledge of the basic structure of the story when you start tugging at the threads the entire setup starts to lose cohesion so what is Arthur Ian cannon and more importantly do we actually care to start off we need to talk about the historical context for King Arthur as in the time frame he supposedly existed in and the events and accomplishments east-german credited for his talking about history makes me break out in hives I've conscripted Blu to do it for me so basically in the late 400s ad after the Germanic tribes did the sacking and Rome did the falling the power structure was pretty scattered and a handful of German warlords ruled over an ethnically Latin and German mixed European population as high as this dichotomy goes Britain was handily in the non-latin corner on account of Rome only holding territory there for a couple centuries although they were still predominantly Christian with the Roman Empire gone there was hefty competition over who would get to fill in the various power vacuums that had opened up in Britain the major conflict at the time was between the local quasi Roman Britons and a number of incursions from the Angles and Saxons Germanic tribes from nearby Scandinavia who predated the Vikings by a good few centuries now you might recognize some of those names from the word England which is angle land and also places like Essex and Sussex east and south Saxony yeah so our buddy Artie according to the few sources that we have was most likely one of these quasi Roman Britons fighting against the Scandinavian invasions that being said the sources are pretty spotty so we don't even know if this guy ever really you know existed he may well be an exaggerated version of some real historical figure as historian suspects or like most superheroes he could have been 100% made up and then just placed into a real world setting but whoever King Arthur was or was inspired by the bottom line is that they had some serious beef with the Angles and Saxons thanks dude so now that we've gotten the historical art their stuff out of the way let's talk about the retold Arthur stuff the earliest written accounts of King Arthur are from the mid 900 s in the NL s Cambria and they're really short and really uninformative one says in 516 ad Arthur won the Battle of baton and the other one says in 537 AD Arthur and Mordred fell in the strife of CamLAN and there was death in Britain and Ireland unsurprisingly this isn't much to go on it doesn't tell us who Arthur and Mordred are or how they're connected to each other it doesn't say who they're fighting if they were fighting each other or on the same side it 1000 my lord as my king I insist you rise first I'm dead he doesn't even tell us if Arthur and Mordred died and given that this account was written around 400 years after any historical basis for Arthur died we're already starting from a pretty a historical source material [Music] the first ridden Arthurian stories properly get started in the early 1100 with Geoffrey of Monmouth's historia regum Britannia a latinized pseudo history of Britain that starts with Brutus as the first king of Britannia and ends whenever a king you've almost certainly never heard of because lineages of Kings tend to Peter out into lameness once the hero kings die in the middle of the history is where all the Arthur stuff happens Geoffrey of Monmouth is pretty much responsible for the foundations of Arthurian legend the stuff that everyone agrees on he's got Merlin Guinevere Mordred is a traitor Excalibur the strife of CamLAN the island of Avalon stuff like that so according to Geoffrey the basic timeline goes like this Luther Pendragon King of Britannia is at war with Saxons but also he really wants to sleep with this lady a journey who happens to be married to others buddy Gor Louis the Duke of Cornwall Lutheran Gor Louis casually go to war over this whole debacle but Merlin a wise dude with vaguely defined magical powers helps soothe ER bangies erina by shape-shifting him to look like gore Louis we can get down with another dudes wife this is how Arthur happens Luther then storms the castle and hanage owner then get married and have another kid named Anna Luther is then poisoned by the Saxons and dies Arthur takes the throne at the ripe old age of 15 and proceeds to spend the next several years conquering it oh that's fun that's a this is a pretty intense amount of conquering here his way through a truly ridiculous amount of northern Europe including but not limited to Ireland Iceland Norway and Gulf which if you've ever read an Asterix book you already know was dominated by the Roman Empire so by conquering Gaul Arthur's pretty much declared war on the Roman Empire what the heck Geoffrey that's not even slightly historically viable so Arthur moves on to fighting Rome but while he's away doing that his nephew Mordred marries Arthur's wife Guinevere and usurped the throne are comes back to fight Mordred in the famous strife of Kamla and and while Mordred is killed in the encounter Arthur is fatally wounded and is taken away to the magical island wa Avalon to be healed Avalon by the way has been referenced once before by Geoffrey as the place where Arthur's sword Caliburn was forged now Caliburn is unsurprisingly going to turn into Excalibur in the next few centuries once the word gets a little more Frenchified Geoffrey seems to have gotten named Caliburn by Latin izing a Welsh word which I have no hope of pronouncing correctly spelled like this which might also just be an archaic word for sword at this point Caliburn isn't fancy or magic or whatever it's just a really good sword so to recap Geoffrey establishes Arthur as a conquering King Mern is what is heavily implied to be a classical druid Mordred is a traitor who usurped the throne Excalibur is Arthur's nifty sword and Guinevere is Arthur's wife but Geoffrey's barely managed to publish the historia regem Britannia before people started writing fanfare the first handful of these are written barely a few decades later by cutting into tois a French poet whose name I also can't pronounce you say you can't pronounce it but [ __ ] you just did it and you did it beautifully so who wants to show off an OC he's super proud of you may have heard of the character does Lancelot ring a bell yeah Lancelot best Knight in the world Duloc and exiled Prince raised by the Lady of the lake and her magical fairy Kingdom who's super handsome and totally unbeatable and all the girls liked him and also he totally gets the girl instead of Arthur is somebody's original shock disbelief so Christian is actually responsible for a few major Arthurian elements beyond Lancelot he introduced the Lancelot one of your romance subplot and he also introduced the Grail although it's not the Holy Grail yet we'll get back to that in a minute because the lines like when everything is kind of a big deal and all right or versions of the mythos usually credited with being a reason to experiment downfall of Camelot but in Corinthians version Lance aligning one of yours romance isn't characterized as a bad thing at all it's a beautiful secret love affair that's not even a little bit wrong and how the heck did that happen so one thing we have to understand for context here is that courtly love was just getting big in France around this time now courtly love is a bit complicated it's kind of a fusion of a few different ideas of love none of which are native to France or even Western Europe so those ideas of love are respectively love for love's sake which is the idea that love on its own is enough reason to pursue the whole thing which also handily sidesteps the morally wrong to be in love yeah marry to somebody else exaltation of the beloved lady which pretty much treats the lady involved as your personal goddess think princess bride's as you whip or an example of how that works the ennobling power love the idea that being in love makes you more noble or like spiritually enlightened or something and love is desire never to be fulfilled the idea that courtly love can't really go anywhere you just got a stain in eternal state of mutual pining until one of you dies or the whole public and falls apart now one of the reasons why courtly love was showing up in France around this time was that the First Crusade had just wrapped up and all the French Crusaders were coming home bringing some very interesting cultural ideas back with them also the retcon Kista was in full swing causing a similar cultural bleed into France from Muslim Spain this is relevant because all four of these courtly love elements can be easily traced back to contemporary Islamic and Arabic notions of love love for love's sake and exaltation of the beloved lady are both themes in Arabic literature in the 9th and 10th centuries while the ennobling power of love is discussed at length by Avicenna in his early 11th century treatise on love and love is designer really emergent interesting poetry as well is the general idea that love is something that completes a person and is basically a form of enlightenment which also shows up in courtly love so courtly love was getting big in France right about now and IRAs old crusty and wrote a lot of courtly love stories which is what lands allotting one of yours whole thing was in the first story that they appear together in Lancelot rescues Guinevere from this bad guy malagant they spend a passion at night together and they end up in a classic courtly love relationship where it's basically a very careful dance so they don't get exposed while still being properly infatuated with one another Lancelot has all kinds of trials and tribulations to defend one of yours honor Guinevere at one point tells him to deliberately lose a tournament to prove his love for her but when he starts losing she's all like I changed my mind and it ends up with them very carefully hugging in public while the secrecy of their relationship is prioritized they're never characterized as being in the wrong for pursuing that relationship one of your is married to Arthur but she's in love her Angela a very classic courtly love set up Lancelot in one of your sleep in the other despite one of your being married was justified by love for love's sake and the whole thing actually made Lancelot more noble rather than less via the ennobling power love part and of course since they could never properly be together they hit that last part bang on their love could never be fulfilled we'll get to the problems this cause later yes it also introduced the concept of the Grail in the story of the Fisher King who you also might have heard of the Fisher Kings whole thing is that he's a king who's been owned it in a very unfortunate place and as a result can't have children this has detrimental effects on his kingdom which becomes a wasteland as a result of the Kings infertility so a knight named Percival stumbles on the Fisher King and is invited to a banquet but warned against talking too much while there he sees a procession of people carrying weird stuff like a bleeding Lance in a candelabrum and finally a girl carrying a Grail afterwards one of the courtiers angrily tells him that if he just asked who the Grail was for and why the Lance was bleeding the Fisher Kings injury would be healed and they have all been saved Percival then has to embark on a bunch of quests to fix his mistake although annoyingly carthesian didn't actually finish this story so we don't get a resolution until later writers stepped in to write Percival returning and healing the Fisher King so after the next major part of our theory and literature is probably one of the most famous ones - it's called the Vulgate cycle written in the early 1200s and among other things it does a lot to Christianize the mythos adding things like the holy part to the holy grail and things like consequences for a dog's realization character arc the vulgar cycle also president Arthur written by Thomas Malory a couple centuries later which is basically just the same stories but rewritten a little bit for clarity so to start off before the Vulgate cycle was written the stewed Robert de Boren wrote a poem about Merlin fleshing out his backstory and the poems been lost but it was transcribed into prose in a bull gate which is why we still know basically read sake now the poem on the Christianization ruins backstory prior to this Merlin had been kind of purposefully mysterious he was heavily based on two quasi historical figures one a mad prophet and bard named some Welsh thing that I have no hope of pronounce but is spelled like this and the other one Aurelius Ambrosius a cryptic wise dude with unclear origins Boran tosses that out the window and makes Merlin the Antichrist or rather an attempted Antichrist basically a cabal of demons got together and sent an incubus to impregnate a virgin but said virgin objected told her confessor and the two of them baptized baby Merlin and saved him from potential anti-christmas his demonic heritage gave him some nifty superpowers like shape-shifting as well as a perfect knowledge of the past and present but he was also given the power of prophecy by God making him pretty close to omniscient Boran also expanded Merlin's mythical role in Arthur's upbringing expanding it from orchestrated his conception to past him throughout his childhood and adulthood turning Merlin into a more permanent presence in Arthur's life the Vulgate cycle also introduces the concept that Arthur wasn't known to be Uther Pendragon son and heir and had to prove his credentials by pulling Excalibur out of an anvil so this is also the origin of the sword in the stone concept in this version Merlin's story ends kind of tragically or hilariously depending on your basically he falls in love with this lady nevian who's incredibly uninterested in him and grossed out by both his persistence his old 'no sand his demon heritage nubian asks him to pretty please teach her everything he knows about magic and when he does she uses her newfound powers to seal him away so he'll leave her alone points for problem solving anyway along with that stuff we also get more focused on Arthur's nights when we get to the quest for the Holy Grail which also introduces Galahad the illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine who because Lancelot was strictly a one-woman guy magically transformed herself into Guinevere it again we just leave with her yep okay I like that I really like female empowerment bro I like that she's like okay so you won't leave me alone it's it's fine I will embrace this nah just kidding get out my face nobody wash you [ __ ] stay away from me I like that Galahad is basically Lancelot but better like not sleeping with another man's wife better Galahad kicks off his being better than Lancelot nice by sitting in a chair that will only allow the ground like to sit in it or else it'll kill him crying is recognized as the Grail Knight and less the one who will find the Holy Grail he also pulls a magic sword out of a stone just because he wasn't symbolic basic never get enough already the Knights geez Lancelot sure you don't have a kid you don't know about huh yes that's uh it's not possible and is therefore funny but only better somehow didn't they all have a vision of the Holy Grail covered by a cloth which also magically makes a bunch of food appear out of nowhere Gawain declares that he wants to actually see the Grail and this prompts 150 of Arthur's knights to decide to go on a quest for the Grail which Arthur thinks is a bad idea and Blaine's going for so Lancelot Galahad Gawain Percival and Bors along with 145 other knights who are significantly more disposable all independently head off to quest for the Grail and by the way this Percival is the same Percival as was in the older Grail story too basically being slotted into the story as the previous Grail Knight candidate so Galahad can also be shown to be cooler than him but on top of showing off how cool Galahad is the whole story is basically about driving home not cool Lancelot is because pretty much every turn in his quest is some other god-given sign that he's not worthy of seeing the Grail his culminates and him actually reaching the Grail chamber at which point it shoots a fireball at him and knocks him out for three and a half weeks Galahad meanwhile having spent his quest time fighting villains rescuing maidens repairing swords with a single touch and healing the Fisher King because oh yeah that's still a thing finally reaches the Grail with Percival and Bors in tow at which point after some shenanigans Galahad gets carried up to heaven by a choir of angels and the Grail is never seen again Lancelot having learned a valuable lesson about his sinful ways is off to stop with the adultery a resolution which lasts until about the next time he sees Guinevere basically what we're seeing here is the collision between the concept of courtly love as a good thing and the concept of being faithful to your husband as a good thing running up a kind of a weird moral conflict as a result of these two conflicting visions of what love and marriage should really meet anyway alongside all that Lancelot drama we also get some comparative developments in the character of Morgan la Fey now we haven't talked about her yet because she hasn't really been important up till now although her character does feature as early as Jeffrey's Astoria where she's characterized as the eldest of nine obviously phase sisters who live in Avalon she's fully benevolent in that version and is in fact the one who heals Arthur while he's resting in Avalon Crutzen introduced the idea of Morgan being Arthur's sister as for future rivalry and dislike of Guinevere and the Vulgate cycle expands on this by giving her a whole backstory in this version Morgan is the older half-sister to King Arthur and she's betrothed by her stepfather Luther to an allied King she doesn't really like Morgan and classic teen rebel form expresses her displeasure by sleeping around a whole bunch but is caught by Guinevere which kicks off her famous rivalry with both Guinevere and Arthur Morgan is among other things very well studied learning astronomy astrology magic healing etc she studies under Merlin for a while but mostly spends her time coming up with highly complex magical schemes to try and bring Guinevere and Arthur down one of her more famous attempts documented in Gawain and the Green Knight involves her conscripting an indestructible night to go to Arthur's Court and get his head chopped off in the hopes that the shock of his sight will cause Guinevere to drop dead on the spot it's all very wily coyote we touched on this when we talked about the Grail but throughout the Vulgate cycle Guinevere and Lancelot are of course continuing their courtly love tryst but probably due to the Christianization of this version of the story this is treated less like noble courtly love and more like garden-variety adultery this version is also the first telling where Mordred discovers their affair but though he tries to persuade the other knights to kick up a fuss about it nobody does in fact Arthur learns about the whole cheating thing from Morgan LeFay but it's not actually one of her schemes or anything after a long and varied career of trying to destroy Arthur and all he holds dear Morgan just kind of stops one day and Arthur just kind of assumes she's dead until he stumbles on her castle several years later to discover that she's not only alive but totally reformed and is in fact planning on moving to Avalon to live with all the other sorcerers while he's there Morgan decides that you can't keep lying started a secret from him and shows him the giant painting Lancelot made one of the times it was in prison they're documenting the whole affair for some reason I don't know Lancelot is stupid anyway aren't they very upset it turns to Camelot why would you do this to yourself you keep a [ __ ] on the DL not a huge conflict of Lancelot who runs away to Gaul and while Arthur's away fighting Lancelot Mordred casual usurped the throne in this version Mordred fails to marry Guinevere because she hides from him in the Tower of London but beyond that the rest plays out about as expected Arthur returns strife with CamLAN Mordred dies etc etc etc in this version Morgan completes a Redemption arc by being the first to the sorceress is to arrive to faerie Arthur off to Avalon and the aftermath of that whole debacle whenever it becomes a non Lancelot becomes a monk and thanks to a promise he made at one point he can't even be buried alongside his love when he dies because the moral of the Vulgate is that adultery is bad kids now one meta thing we got to talk about is that although we're three and folks don't sleep with your friends wives / husbands hide your wife hide your husband well has a lot of Christian elements what would the Holy Grail and all it's also got a lot of traditional Celtic folklore wrapped up in it or pagan if that's how you want to phrase it I mean Morgan la Fey literally means Meghan the fairy the Lady of the lake is blatantly supernatural without being divine and in the 14th century poem going in the Green Knight the Green Knight is a suspiciously Fae like entity what with the immortality the illusions the green aesthetic etc and he might actually be a variant of the mysterious folkloric a Green Man and despite the fact that the Christianisation of the story is almost as old as the idea of transcribing the story Celtic folklore elements kept getting added in for centuries they're not all holdovers from the original telling whatever that because Celtic folklore is good because it's good like the Celts have some of like the best the best fairy tales bro like the best what the idea that Excalibur was a gift from the mysterious fairytale lady at the lake is as late as the fort not an original pre-christian idea the stories were getting more pagan elements in time that they were gay Christian elements and there's a lot of debate over how exactly this fusion of antithetical worldviews happened but if I had to guess I'd say it's probably a fairly classical case of belief systems intersecting without colliding I've noticed this a lot especially in the more historically Celtic parts of Europe but a lot of fairy stories and ideas have survived to the modern day not as fun mythical folklore but just as stuff people know is true Ireland still doesn't pave over fairy circles and from this angle the coexistence of Christianity with a fundamentally pagan belief system of fairy tale supernatural interference is actually pretty precedented again though just a theory and we don't know for certain what the logic behind the folklore was because it's been you know centuries now after Malory wrote la morte d'Arthur which was basically just a remix of the Vulgate cycle there was kind of a lull and interest in Arthurian mythos for a few hundred years people stopped writing proper Arthurian poetry and there was also growing concern about the historicity of King Arthur and whether any of the stories about him can be considered even a little bit true or if he even existed these questions were uncomfortable because Arthur was kind of the foundation of the whole matter of Britain and the idea that he maybe didn't exist was uncomfortable in a lot of ways a legend this song of wedding was young so no no Arthur and stuff really happened until the early 1800s when lungwort the Arthur was reprinted for the first time in over a century now with the benefit of nostalgia Arthur and folklore got popular again in a big way as a romanticized ideal of chivalry and stuff unfortunately World War one apparently kind of bruised the popularity of the chivalry idea but the story stayed popular and has continued to be popular into the modern day now the Canon of modern Arthurian folklore isn't really the same as the Vulgate or morte d'Arthur canon there's been drift over the past few centuries and I think this is because the way we think about King Arthur has changed Geoffrey of Monmouth was writing a fictionalized history that was still supposed to be grounded in real historical events cretton used Geoffrey's Arthurian cannon to glorify his character Lancelot and with him the French ideals of courtly love the following centuries brought heavy Christianisation and an exploration of Christian themes ascribing Merlins magic to demonic power making Morgan la Fey a scholar instead of a spirit and using Lancelot's fundamentally contradictory characterization of supposed noble Paragon and chronic adulterer to explore the notions of sin and impurity in the quest for the Holy Grail and the ultimate all of Camelot in the centuries of lapsed interest in Arthurian cannon Arthur was rarely discussed and only ever used for political commentary on modern events for the past thousand years our theory and canon has been used to glorify specific movements and agendas but recently we've stopped adding to our thery in canon and have started reimagining it Arthurian canon has basically gotten the urban fantasy treatment rather than focusing on the story itself we treat it like source material everyone knows King Arthur but what if King Arthur was a lady everyone knows Merlin but what if Merlin was a skinny British kid everyone knows Mordred but what if Mordred has a sympathetic pawn of his evil mother maybe to spice up your modern urban fantasy story you should have the Fisher King show up or make the bad guy Morgan lafay or throw the Grail in there for funsies basically rather than treating the Arthurian mythos like historical fact or moral creed we're treating it like a mythology and just like modern urban fantasy we'll casually mix up the events of major Norse myths for the sake of an incredibly entertaining movie rewrite Greek myths to be more character-driven or just straight-up making up this like historical fact or moral creed we're treating it like a mythology and just like modern urban fantasy we'll casually mix up the events of major Norse myths for the sake of an incredibly entertaining movie rewrite Greek myths to be more character-driven or just straight-up make up new gods King Arthur's entire story that's to be more character-driven or just which is why I'm not going to do a video about her come on guys Google is free oh yeah I remember seeing this post on tumblr King Arthur's entire story is basically an open source grab bag of modern fantasy ideas and on top of that modern writing also puts a lot more focus on character driven story telling than story driven storytelling up until now Arthur in Cannon has been written and expanded on for specific reasons people added adventures to provide precedent for social movements or adding characters they liked but a lot of modern writing puts almost all of the focus on dealing with characterization with the story mostly providing context for that characterization rather than writing stories with the characters being incidental or vehicles for the plot and because of this focus in characterization everyone taking that angle focuses very specifically on two parts of Arthur Ian's mythos Lancelot Guinevere and Arthur's whole situation and Mordred now the lines like one of your Arthur thing has to exploit Arthur's now I do want to interrupt at this point to say I can't remember the title of the book or the freakin author but I I read this book it was a take on the whole King Arthur thing whatever whatever and they literally managed to make it so that Guinevere was the [ __ ] and Knight like neither Lancelot nor like Lancelot the guy who played the guy who was characterized as Lancelot in the book was like clearly an [ __ ] because him and the Arthur dude were like friends or whatever it was basically like a modern-day incarnation of the King Arthur story and they basically just made it so like when a beer was a dick and also that this was all like this was all like a machination Madsen uh it was all part of Morgan LaFace plan in the future like Morgan fate comes to the Future to like [ __ ] [ __ ] it was weird it was crazy his characterization is further jerked around by the character of Mordred so in the first text that specify Mordred relation to to Arthur he's written to be his nephew the son of Arthur's half-sister Morgause later versions changed it up so that Mordred was also Arthur's illegitimate son but the modern version of Mordred is the son of Morgan la Fey conceived by Arthur and used by Morgan as one of her many schemes to bring Arthur down you may note this has zero precedent in the mythos Morgan and more gasp are different characters and Morgan and Mordred canonically have nothing to do with each other not only right Mordred's decision to usurp Arthur's throne is always his own ambition also lest we forget Morgan la Fey has already given up on being evil for years by the time Mordred does his trader thing in Arthur Falls but the modern tellings combined the disparate elements of mergers betrayal and Morgan's routine scheming into one significantly nastier game-changing plot we're in mourning Arthur's illegitimate son and specifically raises him to overthrow his father and claim his throne which is a lot more evil than hiring a local fairy to prank Guinevere and hoping she dies from it but as a side effect also changes Arthur and Marjorie's entire dynamic classically Mordred is the traitor and Arthur is the Good King brought down but in this version Arthur is not so good what would the whole illegitimate child think and Mordred isn't the traitor he's the pawn in his mother's schemes or from another angle Arthur's tragic karmic downfall brought on by his own wrongdoing Mordred becomes sympathetic and Arthur becomes morally complex at the cost of Morgan becoming a whole lot simpler so the moral of this conflict century spanning story is if Arthur Guinevere and Lancelot had all just been honest about their feelings and entered into a mutually supportive romantic relationship we could have called it a poly armory thank you and good night I support that see as I mention is Lee in the fee on Mac kamyelle video art there's also a king under the mountain in some versions of the myth he rests in Avalon until England's hour of need the rises up to save that it would be in summer sea I'd like to pitch an idea for a slice-of-life comedy where King Arthur and fee on maqam Nile I'm pretty sure but reading that name by the way so apologies for that both rise from the grave due to some potentially catastrophic political upheaval in the general UK area but if I'm finding that the times have changed and ragtag bands of colorful nights marauding across the land is no longer in fashion these days they wind up rooming together in a flat in London in you and summer I never would your hair streaked with sunlight oh that's cool yep so sorry so that said do it soon says Morgan la Fey has a Wikipedia page listing her appearances at modern Trump culture as a column for whether she's carrying us heroic villainous or morally neutral your lips road is fine which is probably the most telling piece of evidence for our backing your moral stance Mendoza would school general consensus these days about Lancelot sucks we'll see if that lasts what if you're also gets her characterization jerked around but not as much as Arthur Lancelot or Morgan mostly because frankly she's not so much of a character as those we are that is true what if here is never painted like in her own light she is only ever painted as like us she's basically like a side character which is crazy because she's aren't there's wife it could my one of the interested quarks of the later story form format that focus on the Knights was you could be a great normal hero who did incredible things and save countless lives and still be a total ass the audience didn't want to root for I've seen how you spoke one phone that it's actually quite interesting modern writing equates knighthood with nobility with Paragon DES constructing characters who are filled with incorruptible pure pure anus and our noble show us Knights as a natural goodness I know you in our theory and mythos meanwhile has the chivalry as a knight's job they are not inherently or in corrupted ly good and Noble and it frequently shows they can be downright nasty and it doesn't break character because a major theme in knighthood is the struggle between human issues fear desire wrath and nobility I must be the of course with the exception of Galahad that makes sense also I like how Robert de boron turned his Inuyasha's self-insert thick into centuries many Hungarian cannon evening when you catch the foot that was a really good video I feel like it was a really great and like it was such a thorough breakdown of the Arthurian legend especially because like like she said at the beginning of the video like there's no like one thing that author's known to be or have or whatever like it was literally just a legend that was cobbled together over the centuries so I feel like read did a really good job with this as she always does if you want to see the original video the link will be down in the description below make sure you go ahead and show oh s piece some love other than that peace out ho biscuits it's getting lit

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Length: 30min 2sec (1802 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 25 2020