Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25551215-20160315233708/@comment-1916997-20160518151138

RockChick19, regarding your question of what I thought was adapted well, I thought everything has been adapted fairly well. I'll admit I'm not super well versed in Arthurian Legend, but I thought it covered what it needed to. Arthur, Gwen, Lancelot love triangle drama was there; Merlin getting turned into a tree by Nimue was there; Arthur dying was there; Excaliber, Round Table, Holy Grail, and Camelot were there; etc. I would say if they should have added something it would be Morgan Le Fay, as she seems pretty popular and common to the mythos, but again no one is saying she can't appear in a future arc. That's the thing about Once, you never know when and how a character can appear, because these are not straight adaptations. Two things I am very well versed in are Greek Mythology and the Oz books, and I think the show has done good with those. Of course they twist and change things, but they seem to understand things that other adaptations totally miss, like a big part of Oz is that there are four witches (and four regions) that each correspond to a cardinal direction, and the Emerald City is the center point. I have never seen an adaptation of Oz stuff prior to Once that understood this. But Once did it right, four witches, each ruling over one cardinal direction. Similarly, I found the fact that they acknologed rather obsure things in Greek Mythology rather well done. Things like Heracles's parentage and his 12 labors, the 5 rivers of the Underworld, and even the story of Orpheus are not things people would instantly recongnize with only a passing knowledge of Greek Myths, but they put that all in anyway. To me it shows that the writers really do do their homework when it comes to adapting something onto Once, and a really appreaciate that attention to detail.