I love Arthurian legends! Ever since I was a kid I've watched every movie, tv show, cartoon, history channel special, and read tons of adaptations of the King Arthur story. So reading Morte was a real treat for me.
It really filled in some gaps and corrected some falsities that the other sources had spawned for entertainment purposes. I never knew that the Lady of the Lake was killed or that Lancelot stole Arthur's wife (or maybe my young mind just didn't register that Lancelot's Gwenevere and Arthur's Gwenevere were the same person). It never occurred to me that Gawain was even part of the Arthurian legend. And Merlin was always shown as having a much larger part in everything in the other adaptations.
Over the summer my parents and I became absorbed in the BBC series Merlin. While its main concern was portraying the wizard in a younger, more appealing light and making Arthur look like a pompous ass, it did have a few episodes that focused on some of the more major events that the Morte presented. I was constantly comparing the series with the actual stories the entire time I was reading and was disheartened when I realized just how much they had changed them.
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