Arthur♥Morgana {ArMor} Lady and Champion │#60│: Because theirs is a furious love

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Thanks :flowers: for posing the vid, Neda. :hug: :yay: to Loli.

I think that the women will be shown as complex, very human and at time humane characters in Camelot. I'm really starting to think that one of the biggest problems with Merlin is that it's a kids' show. I really don't think that dumbing down and sanitizing the Arthurian legends serves anybody well.

Then again another part of me comes in with *cough* T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone and Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave and The Hollow Hills, which were are appropriate for young readers but don't insult the intelligence of children or the integrity of the legends.

Neda, I found this little article about Camelot being shooting now.

Major TV Series Camelot Begins Shooting in Ardmore Studios

The cameras have started rolling on CAMELOT, a major 10-part US drama series which will be shot in Ireland over the next 22 weeks and is worth in estimated $32 million to the Irish industry.

Written by Michael Hirst (The Tudors) and Chris Chibnall (Life on Mars, Torchwood) the series will be a retelling of the Arthurian legend based on Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur (Arthur’s Death). Filming of the historical drama will take place in Ardmore Studios and in various locations throughout County Wicklow, with a cast line-up boasting Joseph Fiennes, Eva Green, Jamie Campbell Bower, Tamsin Egerton, Claire Forlani and Peter Mooney.

CAMELOT is an international co-production between Octagon Films in Ireland together with Ecosse Films in the U.K and Take Five Productions in Canada. The producers involved are Morgan O’Sullivan from World 2000 (producer behind the award-winning TV series The Tudors), Douglas Rae (Becoming Jane) and Michael Park from Ecosse Films along with Executive Producers, Oscar winning producer Graham King (The Departed), Tim Headington and Craig Cegielski, President of GK-TV.

The first two episodes will be directed by IFTA winning Irish director Ciarán Donnelly (The Tudors, George Gently).

CAMELOT is scheduled to be broadcast next year on the U.S premium channel Starz Entertainment, who also owns all the distribution rights to the series in the U.S with GK-TV handling the distribution for the rest of the world.

Posted Saturday, July 3rd, 2010.

Filmbase
 
Yeah that's why I'm kinda excited for Evil!Morgana cause I want to see her being fierce again :D

I'm hoping that will be the case :nod: Because that would at least mean ArMor interaction :love: I can't wait til the actual trailer is up on youtube so we can really see what's going on!
 
Arthur and Morgan(a) ARE canon. :sigh: You could even say that destiny is on our side.

I hope this comes through okay. It's a video for a role playing game -- but the interesting thing is that Henry VIII doesn't become king, his elder brother Arthur lives and becomes king. The Arthur is, of course, Bradley James. :lol:

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If I didn't post that successfully, try this:

YouTube - The Tudor Dynasty RPG Promo!
 
The Tudors was on Showtime, but Camelot will be on Starz. Cheryl (malaguetta) posted a few links about the new show on the last page, earlier today. Funny, I was never into Arthurian legend until Merlin came about, and my disappointment in that series has whet my appetite for more.


I'm still so thrilled with the vocal crowd at the France expo. :clap: YOU CAN'T SHUT ARMOR FANS UP! If I had been there, I would have been insane. I'd bring Liza with me and we would create a ruckus for the cause. I would be blowing on a vuvuzela and screaming out ArMor quotes at random times: "If you won't do it for the boy, then do it for me!" :lmao: Til security dragged me away...
 
Thanks for all the info on Shine and the summary Cheryl :hug:

Yeah I'm kinda torn about the summary. On one hand, watching Morgana be bad ass again will be awesome! On the other hand...insta!villain :no:



That would just kill me if that happened :thud: :love:

Okay so I made a new ArMor vid :D It was inspired by all the talk that was going on earlier about how protective they were of each other. In order not to anger Cheryl and got a virtual head slap, I won't say what I think of it I'll just say here it is :)

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oh...I didn't know that was the definition of Merkin :eek:

So my desire to see the trailer just dropped by 500 degrees. I saw a description and it's M/M and A/G :rolleyes: Here's what they said:

"OH GOD OH GOD MORGANA. Katie's acting has improved, I think (not a Katie hater, but it's simply a fact -- she's growing right before our eyes!). Grave Uther. "How long are you going to keep sacrificing your men?" "As long as it takes to find Morgana." (Paraphrasing, of course.) Morgana crying to a wary Merlin, asking for forgiveness for all that she's done, insinuating that she has seen the light and regrets it... then shots of her smirking unsettlingly when walking away from Uther. Arthur on his knees in the darkened Great Hall, staring up blearily (tired, crying?) in a beautiful white flowing shirt. Lots of happy-go-lucky, pretty pretty Gawain. ARTHUR HAS DONKEY EARS WUT?! He brays in panic and Gwen strokes his ears comfortingly. Merlin, tied up in the courtyard, screaming "DRAGO!" into the night. A sword being forced down into the stone, perhaps? It cracks, then a clip of Merlin seeming to have a physical, jolting reaction to something unseen -- a spell? Arthur attacking some baddies by jumping down onto them from above. Gaius' wig looking a bit more wavy than usual in front."
 
i thought you said liza's fertile and i was like :eek: hold up what??!! i mean maybe but let's not test that theory just yet :rotfl:

glad he hasn't eletrocuted himself anymore tho he looks a little girlie/like a boy but i know he's young, i feel semi-confident eva will make a man out of him or at least her character will for his :eyebrows: o wishful thinking how i love you!
 
This poor little forgotten thread is lonely, and needs love. :in_love:




Yeah, I'm not sure which would be worse - watching Arthur and Gwen kiss, or have a giant fireball coming toward earth to kill us all. And we could have a scene where Arthur has his sword at JC's throat, all hysterical with rage like he was with Uther in 'Sins of the Father'. "You made us leave our bed in Avalon for this tripe?!" :lmao:
 
Evil Morgana is even more fierce, not gonna lie.



That could be the case. If it is, then she'll interact with Arthur to maybe try to persuade him against Merlin?
 
I don't think it really would happen, it would just be kind of interesting. I desperately want the Gwen/Morgana friendship to crumble. :devil: Gwen has proven she doesn't care much for Morgana anymore, so I can't take any BFFness in S3. A lot of people are worried this relative will bring news that Gwen is a surprise noble. That would just suck beyond words. :rolleyes:
 
I love your wild imagination, Liza. It's just like mine. I can take everything even remotely related to ArMor and make it about them having hot secks. :lmao:




She's a Pug! I have 5 (yes, five) of them. :love:




Yeah, if Guinevere was sent off to a nunnery, she wouldn't be deserving of burial next to her husband.


WE'VE GOT LEGEND ON OUR SIDE! :cheerleader:

ETA: Cheryl and I were simultaneously posting:




A lot of people get so caught up in the drama of Henry VIII that they forget he wasn't raised to be a king. His older brother Prince Arthur married Catherine of Aragon when he was young. He died shortly thereafter (presumably testicular cancer), and Henry would ultimately take Arthur's wife and his throne.
Apparently all of the Tudors loved Arthurian legend, and it was a prevalent theme in masques and plays. Both Elizabeth and Henry VIII claimed they were direct descendants of him. :look:
 
MY CHERRYL! :yay: lol and thanks for the awesome comment and the morgana le fay extra reading! can't they ever just call their kids mary, jane and bob, so many weird spellings and confusing names and naming sisters the same name is just dumb, imagine that 'no gwen that's gwen's toy' :confused: 'gwen did it'... which one? :shrug:
sigh
anyway i've realised that i'm slightly derranged in the head now because armor=hot no matter the amount of blood between them, i honestly don't care that they'll be related in the camelot series, i want them together (then again i know they won't because no one else outside this thread will see the awesomeness of that) i never win!
eva green looks like an awesome kickass morgana and i'm hopeful that the guy will be a good arthur, he looks a little pale gangly teen/wannabe surfer boy but lets hope they have the same spark as our lovely BK armor version (and if they ever want to explore the arthur.morgana we're too hot to be related so let's go find a coat closet we can put plan 'swap' into action... it's a clever title isn't it?)

and bo omg yes we totally should have gone to the thing, i would have been shouting along with you! and if security did succeed in pulling you away rest assured i'd jump on their backs and scream right along with you, of course then if we did manage to escape i'm envisioning us trying to run back to the people but getting crash tackled by the security guards and then us just on a heap on the floor twitching slightly and then raising a little flag that says 'armor' before passing out! :lol:

o and neda wasn't it 60 threads that you'd let your muse out? mine are annoyed because my computer is busted and being repaired so i can't get on the internet as regularly as i normally can for hopefully only another couple of days but most likely it's gunna be a couple of weeks, o well i guess i won't be going to buy a new car stereo :lol: i've been meaning to for a year but never got around to it :lol: i'd rather have my computer back though so i can play with you all more!
 
Such mixed feelings about the summary! A focus on Morgana = yay! The idea of her being insta!villain who goes tearing through Camelot like a Tasmanian devil = ehh. That said, sometimes those "official" blurbs end up being rather different from what actually happens. I'd like to see Arthur as her weakness, the one person she can't allow herself to turn on. Though I'd like to see her get angry when/if she finds out about Arthur and Gwen. The great story of Arthur and Morgan(a) through time has been the angst coupled with sexual magnetism. :sigh:
Even though I obviously don't want her to hate or harm Arthur, I am 100% TEAM MORGANA! [note to self: make 'Team Morgana' icons]




Nor do I! :lol: If that had been Morgana, I would have been so disappointed. I want substance over slapstick. Someone on Avalon_awaits pointed out that there isn't a whole lot they can do with gA/G this season. They "developed" their "love" (using those terms loosely and with a touch of mockery) and now nothing can happen til Uther dies. So hopefully that means we won't be suffocated by it in S3. *crosses fingers*
 
Bo :hug:

As for Morgana falling for Gwen's cousin...I suppose its possible. And it would certainly fit with the Gwen's family spoiler and with legend. But I just have a bad feeling that Gwen's family is somehow there just to make things either easier or harder for A/G and probably has nothing to do with Morgana since they don't like to use both girls in one episode. Plus at the panel in France Katie actually said she still had no idea if Morgana would have romance :( Unless that's all she's allowed to tell us because they're keeping the really good plotlines secret :lol:
 
I would pay money for this.

From The Moment of Truth cast commentary:

[28:59 Gwen “…I mean we all do”]
BJ: stupid girl
KM: so does something happen between you guys? No?
AC: no, doubt it
KM: just wondering ‘cause it seems like watching this that there might be something (?)/
BJ: did you not see the look of contempt on Arthur’s face as he looks at her?

:lol:
 
:wave: Happy Friday!

Enjoy your visit to Paris, Neda. :D

Thanks :flowers: for the link to the fic, Bo. I could easily imagine Hugo and Ellie having wrestling matches with Bradley doing a high "Ellie voice" and Katie deepening her voice for Hugo.

Johnny Capps cannot keep Morgana down, no matter how hard he tries. In s2 he marginalized her; relugating her to little more than set dressing. Still, Katie ran with what she had and made the most of it. Now he'll probably try to make more Morgana a one dimensional villain. I think that Katie will give her nuance and depth. She really is a much better actor than many people give her credit for being. :)
 
I don't think there's much hope for these two romantically anymore. But this is what we do know (warning spoilers for season 3):

- Morgana has spent a year with her sister Morgause (probably learning magic since Morgause is a sorceress)
- Morgana returns bloody and bruised to Camelot, claiming bandits had her
- Rumors say she could be a traitor to Camelot from the inside and she has Uther doting on her while she's trying to bring him down
- Lancelot will return to throw another barrier in the way of Arthur/Gwen
- We will learn more about Gwen's past when a member of her family shows up
- Since Merlin tried to poison Morgana at the end of season 2, Morgana will presumably want some type of revenge and Merlin will be cautious about her return

Basically the storyline for season 3 is going to be about magic it seems and the fight for Camelot and whether Morgana is good or evil
 
I know Cheryl, I'm still so giddy after our season 3 news and our first ArMor moment of the season :yay: I had 3 hours of class today and for the entire 3 hours Arthur's voice saying "Morgana" was running through my head :lmao:

Thanks for the Camelot pics Cheryl!! Eva looks great as Morgana, she's going to be bad ass just like Katie :sigh: Jamie's hair does look better :nod: Though I still think he looks a little young...but I'll get over it. I wish I knew where/when they were having open filming so I could go!
 
:wave: ArMor fans, I ask you, how can we neglect this poor little thread?

Love to the little ArMor Couples thread. :love:

A little bit of background about Shine Ltd, the production company responsible for Merlin

From the Shine Ltd website:

Shine TV was founded by Elisabeth Murdoch in early 2001 and after rapid organic growth has entered the top ranks of UK production companies supplying television content to the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, Sky and UKTV.

Now led by Joint Managing Directors Karen Smith and Jamie Munro, Shine TV creates and produces popular, compelling and quality Entertainment, Factual and Drama programmes and content.

Some of our key brands are Gladiators, Masterchef, Merlin, Demons, The Biggest Loser, Battle of the Brains, Banged Up, Build A New Life in the Country, Sex...With Mum & Dad, Sugar Rush and Most Annoying's...

Shine TV has offices in London, Manchester and Cardiff.

This is their blurb on s3 Merlin:

Merlin Series 3

Series Three sees MERLIN return with the familiar blend of magic, monsters and mayhem. But when secrets are exposed and old friends choose new sides, it is clear that the kingdom will never be the same again. Morgana is finally found after months of absence, and none in Camelot rejoice more than the King himself. But Merlin remains suspicious of his old friend and with good reason, for, despite what she may have others believe, Morgana wants only one thing to take over Camelot and shes prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve it. Life changing decisions must be made as the boundaries of love, duty and friendship are pushed to their utmost limit, and the mettle of each character is tested in unimaginable ways. But in an uncertain future, only the strongest will survive

:: Shine :: Merlin Series 3
 
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