They were told to cast a White person for the role
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i highly doubt there was even a single black person on either of the british isles in 500ad.
There's 1 in the books.
Also a mad old character (King Pelinore) tells of once having seen 2 others.
Yeah there could have been 1 or 2. The isles were connected to the roman empire both east and west through trade and even through the majority of north africa and the middle east were white at this time, it's possible for a small number of subsaharan slaves or merchants to have made their way to britain. Like I said: 1 or 2. No more. Not enough to justify the casting choices of globohomo media makers.
There was that one Moorish knight, Sir Morien. From the 13th century Dutch saga Moriaen, we get this description of the eponymous knight:
Of course, this doesn't mean that there actually were black people in 6th century Britain, but one or two black people in an Arthurian story isn't out of place.
There was also one literally half black (where I mean half black and half white, like a chessboard) and a couple unspecified Saracens in Arthur's company too.
Speaking of (actual) chessboards, quite some magical chessboard stories. I think they also brought the chess from the Arabs (who had it via Persia from India) and instantly got fascinated by the game.
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I hope this bombs. This has become parody’s at this point. Is this based on a book?
Yes, a historical book.
Also, increasingly just mad.
The actor is also way too young. Even at the start of the story (when the narrator is young), Merlin is elderly and even his wife is "now old and toothless".
This is why they picked a black actor. "Christianity bad".
There's plenty of black Christians, but whatever.
Only because their mom forces them to go to church on sundays between all the drugs, murder, and violence of the rest of their weeks.
Merlin character swapped from an ancient wiseman who is trying to restore England to glory, to a coniving politician who's trying to loot the country and put his gods in place of their own...so they make him black..
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Merlin isn't exactly a "good" character in it.
The true Christian Galahad is exactly a good character.
(At least, in the books.)
Thanks. Honestly now I just read the book (which I need to buy now). I assume they will butcher it. Started when I heard Wheel of Time would be adapted. I went out and got the books.
Get physical copies before they’re “updated.”
What I started doing. Recently found Blazing Saddles dvd at a yard sale
Wait they are making the warlord chronicles into a tv series? What a way to become instantly disappointed.
And just out of curiosity, I wonder what will do with other characters such as:
A slave character, but not a redhead so it's still up in the air. Excitement!
I'm not very familiar with the tale, but Morgan LeFay, Merlin's apprentice, was a woman, right? So which blonde guy was getting that blonde slave girl pregnant?
Assuming there wasn't some magical automatic inseminator, ofc.
Morgan is a woman just Sebile literally fucks around in Avalon. Also she's more or less mad since she was captured and prolonged gang raped by an entire warband of "the good guys".
She's an Anglo-Saxon, not unlike the protagonist (who was captured by the Britons as a child and survived the British Druidical traditional child sacrifice and so Merlin took him as a wonder child). Thus them Arische looks so coveted by implied pedophiles.
It's the kind of series where the relative goody Arthur personally murders a lot of unarmed men and women just because he's mad at his wife having started a sex cult of herself (and whom he doesn't as much as hit for that, or for anything, for he's a cuck and a simp with literally-impotent rage issues, despite Merlin wanting to burn her because Merlin's solutions are sometimes simple and practical when they're not convuloted and incomprehensible as usual, also Merlin is merrily murderous and genocidal against Chr*stians who too have their issues, not least hypocrites everywhere), and everyone slaves and tortures because this is normal.
Except Galahad is a true living saint actually. Which is why he wants to die and go to heaven because this (historically accurate-ish) world is so fucked up. And can't even suicide, for its a huge sin, so he fights. He also thinks better of Arthur than Arthur actually is.
And so does the protagonist-narrator too for that matter, and now he's a huge simp for Arthur. No homo, but he lets Arthur kill his estranged wife in the very same episode I mentioned and doesn't even fault him for that (because Arthur was sad, you see, so understandable have a nice day), so maybe homo. He also simps for Guinevere, who's a ruthless ho with a real beauty privilege (she has her redemption arc later, at around the same time when Nimue gets really evil even for their* standards).
Was that a synopsis of the actual myth, or was that a summary of this shitty show?
The book the show is based off of
Of the 1990s books.
Oh, I see. I didn't realize it was based off of a book series. Thanks.
The UK has a tiny number of black people, and they are all actors, apparently.
Lots of doctors and engineers joining them constantly from their hobo camps in the streets of Paris.
3% of 67 million people is about 2 million. And those are just the ones who are counted in official population statistics.
Blacks were always kangz in Europe, bigots.
Ah, them modern historical dramas. A very colorblind and color-de-diversified casting of the books' flame-haired and green-eyed Guinevere getting the redhead character treatment as it is now a tradition: https://andrewgoweractor.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/jordanalexandra_twk2.jpg
Also this reminded me of the case of a Canadian native randomly assaulting a woman named White while shouting "I HATE WHITE PEOPLE" (it was decided in a court as not having been a hate crime despite the verbal proclamation of "hate").
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"A special screening" ... does that mean they had the child trannies doing stripper pole work as a warm-up to the Netflix crap?
Wtf