Mists of Avalon. Pretty good mini-series and nice take on the King Arthur legend. I thought it would stink, but I was wrong. Pretty nice. Wouldn't mind seeing this story get true big-screen treatment though.

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Mists of Avalon. Pretty good mini-series and nice take on the King Arthur legend. I thought it would stink, but I was wrong. Pretty nice. Wouldn't mind seeing this story get true big-screen treatment though.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, not sure, but this sounds like the -true- story of the legend. I know that the Christians (especially of that age) are good at warping a pagan tale to their ends.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>If memory serves me right, King Arthur was said to be possibly one of the last Roman strongholds in Britain before they fell to the natives on the island. By that time, most Romans were Christians.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Exactly, which means that the pagan version of the story was completely muddled into a Christian-converted Holy Grail story.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Good story....nonetheless.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>No, it was an adaptation of the tale by Anne Bradley Zimmer ( I think that's her name). She wrote it in the early '80s I believe...It's way more female-centric than the traditional tales.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Actually, the paganism plays a huge part in the original tale...Though it's true some of the more "modern" (if you consider the 12th century modern) Christian writers did change some stuff around, it still retained a strong pagan grounding, I think.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yup. Makes me want to whip out my Excalibur DVD again.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>True story of a legend? Isn't that an oxymoron?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>In Excalibur, Merlin's power and Excalibur...both pagan symbols, help Arthur unite England.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Perhaps, but after seeing Mists of Avalon, I feel like I should boff the Christians for giving Morgon a bad name.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I perfer the Monty Python version.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Symbols which faded from view, as well as the rest of the pagan arts, by the end of the tale. The MoA movie was well-timed, though, and its message was well-received.</div>