Watching TV series: Merlin . It's Sunday, Merlin 's on! By definition, anybody who adds to the huge Arthurian body of work (possibly the hugest of all), takes "liberties" with the myth, but that's not even an appropriate phrase, because there's only the tiniest piece of historic truth in the whole thing, anyway, whatever Glastonberry shopkeepers will tell you. There was some wartribe chief vaguely corresponding to this Arthur fellow centuries before the medieval period when his adventures are always set. I had to study Le Morte D'Arthur for the Agrégation, back in my long gone youth, and read just about every little piece of arthuriana I could lay my hands on. Before and after, I'd seen a zillion movies and a zillion TV products and read a zillion comic books dealing with Arthur and Merlin and the whole gang. But this new product does take more liberties, as it were. Unexpected ones, I mean. Notably when it comes to the relationships between the prot
