owlectomy | (no subject)

Historicity and spectacle in television about the Borgias:

"(By the way, if you’re trying to watch the BBC’s Merlin and decide it’s not set in the past but on a terraformed asteroid populated by vat-cultured artificial people who have been given a 20th century moral education and then a book on medieval society and told to follow its advice, everything suddenly makes perfect sense!)"