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rionaleonhart) wrote2013-10-04 07:18 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2013-10-04 07:18 pm
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You're The Triangle Guy!
A few nights ago, I had a dream that I watched Atlantis, the BBC's latest Saturday-night fantasy drama series. Having woken, I decided that this was obviously a sign and I should give Atlantis a try. (It's probably not a great idea to take advice from my dreams. Somebody stop me if I try to re-enact the one in which I piss Hitler off at a fancy dinner party.)
About a third of the way into the first episode of Atlantis, I had to pause and fire off a distressed e-mail to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
th_esaurus:
NO
ATLANTIS IS MERLIN IN ANCIENT GREECE WITH TIME TRAVEL
(THE MAIN CHARACTER LOSES HIS SHIRT FOUR MINUTES IN, IT IS DEFINITELY MERLIN)
I'M NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EPISODE
I LOVE IT ALREADY
I'M EVEN 'SHIPPING SOMETHING
NO
THIS IS A DISASTER
Then I finished the episode and spent half an hour looking through Atlantis GIFs on Tumblr and shouting 'NO' at myself.
There's only been one episode, so I suppose things could change, but I can say this much for now: if you liked Merlin, you will probably like Atlantis. If you hated Merlin but nevertheless derived a strange sense of enjoyment from watching it, you will probably hate-love Atlantis as well.
If you haven't watched Merlin and therefore can't use that as a basis, here's a second 'Is Atlantis For Me?' test: if you are looking for high-quality drama, stay away. If you're looking for something ridiculous about a modern-day young man being thrown into Ancient Greece (a turn of events he inexplicably accepts within about five seconds) and developing a gratuitously homoerotic friendship with Pythagoras, I don't know why you're not watching it right now. It's available on BBC iPlayer if you're in the UK.
I think it has very strong potential to be the next big fandom thing.
About a third of the way into the first episode of Atlantis, I had to pause and fire off a distressed e-mail to
th_esaurus:NO
ATLANTIS IS MERLIN IN ANCIENT GREECE WITH TIME TRAVEL
(THE MAIN CHARACTER LOSES HIS SHIRT FOUR MINUTES IN, IT IS DEFINITELY MERLIN)
I'M NOT EVEN HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EPISODE
I LOVE IT ALREADY
I'M EVEN 'SHIPPING SOMETHING
NO
THIS IS A DISASTER
Then I finished the episode and spent half an hour looking through Atlantis GIFs on Tumblr and shouting 'NO' at myself.
There's only been one episode, so I suppose things could change, but I can say this much for now: if you liked Merlin, you will probably like Atlantis. If you hated Merlin but nevertheless derived a strange sense of enjoyment from watching it, you will probably hate-love Atlantis as well.
If you haven't watched Merlin and therefore can't use that as a basis, here's a second 'Is Atlantis For Me?' test: if you are looking for high-quality drama, stay away. If you're looking for something ridiculous about a modern-day young man being thrown into Ancient Greece (a turn of events he inexplicably accepts within about five seconds) and developing a gratuitously homoerotic friendship with Pythagoras, I don't know why you're not watching it right now. It's available on BBC iPlayer if you're in the UK.
I think it has very strong potential to be the next big fandom thing.
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Heracles would indeed be more accurate for Ancient Greece! Although Atlantis does not seem tremendously concerned with accuracy. The Roman name generally seems more popular, so I can understand why they went with it; almost everyone has heard of Hercules, but some viewers might not have realised who he was if he'd introduced himself as Heracles.