[MR] "Mists of Avalon"

Brett W. McCoy bmccoy at chapelperilous.net
Wed Jul 18 20:32:28 PDT 2001


On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 Beiskaldi at aol.com wrote:

> I expected that due to the fact that it was only 4 hours long.
>
> > I won't even address the historical and garb issues. (shudders)
> >
> As always, keep in mind it is fiction, & hollywood has never let historical
> accuracy, even for garb, get in the way of a movie.

I don't recall that the book itself was particularly historical accurate.
But then again, it was a work of fantasy, like all other tellings of the
Arthurian legend, so I don't think we ought to be making it represent
history.

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