Merlin - better than heroes!

Loosecannon · 27 Oct 2008 at 17:04

First proper series I remember - Mysterious cities of gold.

Heroes, Lost and BSG are all fantastic, I love story arcs.

Merlin is still much better than Robin Hood though!

Shoseki · 27 Oct 2008 at 17:05

Prefer No Heroics, me

milkinc13 · 27 Oct 2008 at 20:10

Chimerical said:
I would imagine its more than that.

Doctor Who is £1 million per episode and that...sucks to be honest.

This is purely a guess, but I'd estimate the budget of Heroes to be aroundabout $70 million per season.

Dr Who last i read is £1million per series, so it's a couple hundren thousand per episode & the CGI looks terrible & obvious, on heroes only some is obvious where as other parts look realistic

Lord_Kokain · 9 Nov 2008 at 15:00

Gotta say though, as much as the storyline of some episodes was cheap, the way it sort of twisted on the last episode was pretty neat.

Klo · 9 Nov 2008 at 15:07

milkinc13 said:
Dr Who last i read is £1million per series, so it's a couple hundren thousand per episode & the CGI looks terrible & obvious, on heroes only some is obvious where as other parts look realistic

Heroes effects are a lot better than Dr Who's. The only things I find off putting is people flying, which in my opinion doesn't look real at all. Also, series 3 so far has had a lot better effects than series 2.

Streeteh · 9 Nov 2008 at 15:08

Heroes has been rather poor ever since season one, it isn't hard to be better than it yet Merlin failed at that too.

makeshiftwings · 9 Nov 2008 at 22:18

Robin Hood, Merlin and Dr Who are all poorly scripted and terrible. Merlin is the best of a bad lot.
I enjoy The Tudors though, even though they are stringing it along a bit. I miss Sam Neill. He makes everything better.

Gideon Lorr · 9 Nov 2008 at 22:54

The problem with UK shows is they too often rely on storylines being squeezed into one episode- aka Doctor Who, Merlin, Robin Hood and so on.
Also, they rely on very clean cut characters: its easy most of the time to spot who is good, and who is bad- no grey areas in their morality or what have you.

Larger budjets and longer seasons means that US shows have storylines/arcs spread over several episodes, which usually does wonders for development of the characters and so on.

Though Heroes never picked up for me after the brilliant first series- the second was damn poor. I'll admit I haven't watched any season three yet (worth watching?).

icey_haj · 9 Nov 2008 at 23:27

That morgana in merlin is well fit

Shaye87 · 9 Nov 2008 at 23:51

yeah she is

Ceryndrion · 10 Nov 2008 at 01:22

honestly, while I give them a little credit for at least trying.. taking established elements of the story, and throwing them away, is just plain irritating.. Take last nights episode for example, since when was Mordred a druid boy, I was always lead to believe that he was the son of Arthur and Morgana.

Shamikebab · 10 Nov 2008 at 02:14

Would probably be better off in the music,tv, film , everything forum. Im really enjoying Merlin, its a little 'baddy of the weekish' at the moment but i hope they get some story arcs going soon. Heroes is still a lot better though, UK shows just look amateur in every way in comparison.

BigglesPiP · 10 Nov 2008 at 02:34

Can someone explain to me what merlin is actually about, beyond wizardry. I'm in two minds about bothering to watch it.

Tombo · 10 Nov 2008 at 05:35

IIRC Heroes has a 4m budget per episode.

HeX · 10 Nov 2008 at 09:42

icey_haj said:
That morgana in merlin is well fit

Never a truer word spoken.

http://katie-mcgrath.com/gallery/

MooMoo444 · 10 Nov 2008 at 11:57

*dons asbestos suit and flame retardant riot shield*

Anything is better than heroes..

RDM · 10 Nov 2008 at 12:00

BigglesPiP said:
Can someone explain to me what merlin is actually about, beyond wizardry. I'm in two minds about bothering to watch it.

Imagine if someone had read Mort d'Arthur in it's original form. Didn't understand a word of it but thought the names were cool. They then wrote a TV series.

FatRakoon · 10 Nov 2008 at 12:22

MooMoo444 said:
*dons asbestos suit and flame retardant riot shield*
Anything is better than heroes..

Oh, you didnt...

No, please tell me you didnt...

You did?

Right, thats it... ( Rolls sleeves )

RDM said:
Imagine if someone had read Mort d'Arthur in it's original form. Didn't understand a word of it but thought the names were cool. They then wrote a TV series.

If there was ever a good use for the word "BINGO", then that there ladies and gentleman, is it.

Rob200sx · 10 Nov 2008 at 12:29

Please tell me none of you were actually expecting Merlin to be factual

Now, if they screenplay a version of the Warlord Chronicles that would be better

FatRakoon · 10 Nov 2008 at 12:50

Rob200sx said:
Please tell me none of you were actually expecting Merlin to be factual

Not factual, or at least I certainly hope no one does, but there is a certain level of acceptance that a story about King Arthur / Merlin etc would at least follow something along the lines of the accepted story.

What we are experiencing with this Merlin junk is along the lines of the story of little red riding hood was walking to the enchanted castle to met prince charming and the 3 bears said oh what a big uzi you have there! - its kind of got stuff you know you seem to recognise, but its just all wrong.

Then again, thats never stopped anyone believing in religion I suppose?