#bbc atlantis

Crazy how the bbc merlin writers went on to make a show named 'bbc atlantis' which featured two male leads (pythagoras and icarus) who were paralleled to merthur in a bazillion ways!!!! And one of them (almost) dies in the other's arms! and they also! Kissed!

You know, BBC need to go back to creating shows like Merlin, Atlantis and Musketeers. Those were top quality.

Here is my propaganda to get everyone to watch BBC Atlantis:

I am FASCINATED by BBC Atlantis version of Orpheus and Eurydice. Firstly, and the thing that really fascinates me, is that they're old. They are both old people, and have been with eachother, known eachother, loved eachother, been married to eachother, for a very long time. In all other versions of the story (that I've heard), they are always young, often newlyweds, and there is always a sense of "she died too soon", or "she was so young", or "we barely got any time together" which is not really the case here. She didn't die "naturally" (whatever a "natural" death means) in this version either, but still, she wasn't a young woman. And yet. And yet. It still isn't enough time, for either of them, because obviously this all takes place before, and right after, Eurydice's death. Before he goes after her. And he does go after her, despite them being in "their last days" on earth. They both knew they didn't have much time left, and still he goes after her. Because it wasn't supposed to end like that.