Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Very, very strongly averted when Nimue is disfigured with an enormous scar across her face that cannot be healed after narrowly escaping a dragon.Bastard Bastard: Mordred, so very much.Special mention also goes to Ambrosia, who declares that if Mab harms Merlin in any way, “Magic or no magic, I'll have her guts for my bootlaces.” Arthur in particular goes up against Mordred, a bonafide Super Soldier, and still manages to handily defeat him, only getting killed in the process because he hesitates to land the final strike. Badass Normal: Arthur, Uther, Vortigern, Lancelot, Nimue, Frik after he loses his powers.Vortigern apparently (and amusingly appropriately) didn't seem to think his through:.Awesome Moment of Crowning: Vortigern makes a horrible subversion early on, by picking up the crown of the late King Constant and deliberately putting it on his own head, smiling in a prideful, self-satisfied way while his soldiers cheer.Authority Equals Asskicking: Vortigern may be aging, but he is still a deadly force on the battlefield as the king.But then, Mab does mention that the fairykind sometimes see into the future. Some of Frik's disguises seem to reflect the future for example, his dashing swashbucler-character wears 18th century clothes and wields a smallsword (yes, a smallsword, not "a small sword") that isn't going to be invented in centuries.Or an Antipodean accent, as in the case of Sam Neil.Almost all of the place names should really be different, and they wouldn't be speaking modern English with American accents either. That could just be Translation Convention though.The area gained this name only after year 911, when the Viking Chieftan Rollo was granted the lands to protect them from the rest of the marauding Norsemen. Normandy is also mentioned as the place where Uther gather his armies against Vortigern.However, the terms “knight” and “Sir” are still used. Anachronism Stew: The setting is closer to the period of the late Roman Empire than most adaptations of the legend, with Iron Age costumes, armor, and weapons.Ambition Is Evil: Morgan le Fay is entirely motivated by getting herself closer to the throne.All There in the Manual: The novelizations.(In case you were wondering, the first level is magic via incantation, the second level is magic via hand gesture, and the third level is magic via thought alone.) This makes it difficult to understand Frik’s later comment about Merlin never progressing past being a Hand Wizard. Among them, a description of the workings of magic. Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Several scenes were deleted on home video.Acting for Two: Miranda Richardson plays both Mab and her sister, the Lady of the Lake.According to the novelization, the axe was a form of the black sword Caliban, an Artifact of Doom that Mab helped Mordred retrieve, which shapeshifted to become a weapon more suitable to Mordred's desires and is an Absurdly Sharp Axe.So sharp that just parrying a regular sword will cut the lesser weapon in two, which makes you wonder what Mordred's axe was made of/how heavily enchanted it was.
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Not related to the 2008 series of the same name. The series was followed by a novelization in the form of a trilogy in 1999, and by a sequel, Merlins Apprentice, in 2006, which had less to do with traditional Arthurian Mythology and was not as popular as the first movie. Merlin also stays throughout the entire reign of King Arthur and after it, with some details altered to fit the story more from his point of view. The series brings Celtic Mythology to the forefront and introduces new characters not seen in the original mythology, with Queen Mab acting as the leader of The Fair Folk and the series' Big Bad. The story covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot, but the phase in the legendary history in Britain that precedes it. A television miniseries released in 1998 that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin, starring Sam Neill in the title role.