Dear Adapters of Arthurian Legends

[sour_idealist]

Two of the following women are portrayals of Morgana, in allegedly non-updated Arthurian retellings. One of them is a space hooker. I mean that literally: she is high-class, but she is a prostitute, and she is from a speculative fiction series.

Who's the odd one out?



Still no answer? And it doesn't count if you know the fandoms. Well, if you still need help, let's try some full-body shots.



...It's still pretty hard to tell, isn't it.

Let's think about this for a second. A prostitute from a series set over a hundred years in the future looks right at home and not at all out of place next to two women allegedly from immediately post-Roman England, in a period when years only had three digits.

Hollywood? Something is very, very wrong here.

For those of you who are curious: The lady on the bottom (in the first set) and on the right (in the second set) is your odd one out: Inara Serra, from Firefly. The others are from Excalibur and BBC's Merlin respectively.

Comments

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

This is why I worry my novel will never get made into a movie or TV show. Because my heroine is thirteen years old, modestly dressed, and, by TV standards, ugly.

[indemaat.livejournal.com]

TV adaptation means that the elements of the story that won't work for TV are thrown out.

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

If, fate willing, my work does get made into a TV show or movie and anyone involved tries to make one of my characters dress like a hooker when I didn't say she was supposed to, I'll sue. Then again my current original work is steampunk, so they'll all be in pseudo-Victorian outfits, which aren't known for exposing excessive flesh, so I might get away without that problem. And, again, the heroine's only thirteen, which I hope is enough to keep her out of the fanservice arena.

Even if it never gets made into a movie I'd kind of like to see my work made into a low-budget-but-still-cool BBC show, a la Neverwhere. Could be fun.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I mean, there's nothing to say Morgana didn't dress like a hooker (it's unlikely, but theoretically possible) but even hookers wore five times that much back then. I'm honestly as irritated by the ridiculousness of the outfits as the fanservice. I mean, in a different setting Morgana #2's dress would be pretty classy.

And yeah, that would be fun. For some things, TV shows make the best adaptations.

[chelonianmobile.livejournal.com]

I am including an adult male character with the intention of him providing a spot of fanservice for the female readers, but he's not a major character, he has purpose other than fanservice, and he does wear a reasonable amount of clothing throughout most of the book.