Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26984254-20151019051803/@comment-26470393-20191110134314

Starshp060 wrote: 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 had no “darkness” in Arthurian legend, unless you’re taking about the national and anti Arthurian propaganda, like the French prose cycles. (Which was also, coincidentally, Cistercian propaganda. That intended to reject the positive and traditional portrayal of the English heroes, by blackening and tainting the English heroes, in favor of the French heroes. And therefore, replacing the English heroes with the French heroes, in the new genre that the authors of the French prose cycles were trying to create, as expected by bias and chauvinistic French propaganda authors, but had, however, 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, in 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. by dark aspects, he means characters like Morgana le fay and Mordred and when Mordred and Arthur both kill each other