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Oct. 23rd, 2020 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched an episode of Merlin while I ate soup
(iplayer makes it easy)
Lancelot wanted to be a knight but only nobles can be knights
so Merlin did a bit of forgery because It's Not Fair.
... I kept wanting to get into the economics.
Like, the story is putting two sides of an argument about how it's about trust and loyalty and he shouldnt tell lies vs how it should be about merit not birth and he can fight like a knight so he should be one
but like, who owned that armour? How many man hours are represented in a knight's full gear and who is expected to provide them? Where exactly did his horse come from, seeing as he did not arrive with them?
Whose tax base funds how many knights?
Would turning up in your shirtsleeves whilst noble have been enough to get fully equipped, or is noble in this case shorthand for 'has an armory and stables and can send some of it with them'.
It's at the front of my mind because I've been reading DnD equipment lists, but that's a significant investment in chainmail and longsword alone that Merlin just told him to put on, and it seems like that should have come up at some point.
Also, he spent his whole life so far training to be a knight? How did he eat?
I realise that's not their story but it slid right past.
I did rather like their Griffin though. Their fight scenes are mostly people making faces and swinging wildly at CGI, but it was pretty CGI.
(iplayer makes it easy)
Lancelot wanted to be a knight but only nobles can be knights
so Merlin did a bit of forgery because It's Not Fair.
... I kept wanting to get into the economics.
Like, the story is putting two sides of an argument about how it's about trust and loyalty and he shouldnt tell lies vs how it should be about merit not birth and he can fight like a knight so he should be one
but like, who owned that armour? How many man hours are represented in a knight's full gear and who is expected to provide them? Where exactly did his horse come from, seeing as he did not arrive with them?
Whose tax base funds how many knights?
Would turning up in your shirtsleeves whilst noble have been enough to get fully equipped, or is noble in this case shorthand for 'has an armory and stables and can send some of it with them'.
It's at the front of my mind because I've been reading DnD equipment lists, but that's a significant investment in chainmail and longsword alone that Merlin just told him to put on, and it seems like that should have come up at some point.
Also, he spent his whole life so far training to be a knight? How did he eat?
I realise that's not their story but it slid right past.
I did rather like their Griffin though. Their fight scenes are mostly people making faces and swinging wildly at CGI, but it was pretty CGI.