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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: So have you not watched the other seasons? Because then you would know a big part of the show is twisting the traditional stories. Arthur is getting off easy compaired to some of the other characters, honestly. XD Exactly.... all OUaT is doing, is playing off Arthur's darkness from the legends.

That depends by what you mean by “darkness.” King Arthur has no “darkness” in Arthurian legend unless your taking about national and anti Arthurian propaganda like the French prose cycles. (The authors of the French prose cycles, intended to reject the positive and traditional portrayal of the English heroes by blackening and tainting the English heroes . Therefore, discrediting the English heroes in favor of the French heroes. Who were meant to replace the English heroes in the new genre that they were trying to create, as expected by bias and chauvinistic French propaganda authors, but had erroneously failed.) However, King Arthur was typically depicted as the ideal king in Arthurian legend. And initially as a Christian warrior akin to Galahad. And by that i mean, the earliest accounts of King Arthur are from the 9th-10th century ad, King Arthur was being aided by Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary against the Anglo Saxons, and was essentially an agent of god.