possibly an unpopular fannish opinion? judging by my foray into delicious-land?

I just watched the fifth episode of Merlin, and.

( Uh, spoilers? I guess? The episode is called Lancelot so I'm guessing the subject matter is already out there. )

(Also, in college, before I really got into slash though long after I knew what it was, I wrote a long paper comparing the Lancelot-and-Elaine story in Malory and in Tennyson, demonstrating that Malory's version (pretty much in line with the time in which Malory lived) valued most highly the bonds of love between knights, which was the source of all good in that story, and cautioned against romantic/passionate love between men and women, which was the cause of all harm, while Tennyson downplayed or twisted the bonds between knights and played up the power of romantic love.

Um. That's not really relevant to anything except I guess that inasmuch as I have an attachment to anything in the vast landscape of Arthuriana, it's probably the part of Lancelot's story that completely excludes Arthur.

Also I saw First Knight at an impressionable age. Ahem.)


And I guess I am going to need an icon. Or two.