  Tuesday, June 30, 2009    As beginnings go, this one was sort
of …. blink and you’ll miss it coupled with cheesy voice over
and a tall pointy eared youth walking through a forest.   I
suppose it is hard to make a new show based on a story that has
been done and redone and then redone again (and again) but in
today’s climate of “We miss Buffy” and “Harry Potter made a lot
of money….” It isn’t really all that surprising.  Ok, fine. Open
mind and all that.   Actually the show isn’t half bad. Anthony
Stewart Head is Uthur, the roles of who is who in the court are
a bit jumbled, but overall it is a fantasy show with enough
familiar touches and enough changes to make it interesting.
Like.. Guinevere is the Lady Morgana’s maid… and she is all
sweet on Merlin. This can’t end well.  I will note that Merlin
has remarkable teeth… in fact most of the pretty people in this
show are well, remarkably pretty which is slightly
disconcerting… but the fact that there aren’t any blonds I find
refreshing.  By the way, Arthur i