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[malka]

Netflix informs me that a particular show is "[a] family-oriented retelling of the King Arthur legend".

Do you even have anything left if you take out all the bits generally not considered "family-oriented" by American culture? I guess the first part of T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone might count, if you took out the more gruesome parts of his adventures in animals and a fair bit of miscellaneous other stuff. Maybe.

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[vera_l]

Violence and mayhem! Violence and mayhem are totally family-oriented!

(I'm joking, but only partly. When I was a little kid I had a book named something like "King Arthur and His Knights" that more or less fit that description. Some of the bits with sex were included, with the sex elided to "falling in love" (they were very vague on how kids sometimes resulted from this process...), but a lot of it was episodic Exciting Knightly Adventures.)

[malka]

They probably also completely left out the bit about "You guys won't quit jockeying for position? Fine. I'll get a goddamn round table and you can try to find the 'head seat' on that!"

My impressions of knightly adventures of the mythos (non-lurve-related ones, that is) are limited to endless Grail-questing and the story about "he said I could cut off his head this year if he cut off mine last year and he didn't die when I cut off his head and what do I dooooo?" It's possible that I don't have a complete grounding in the possibilities, though. :)

(And I guess the stuff from Eager's Knight's Castle, but for some reason that never registered as Arthurian to me, although of course it's depicting childish fanfic thereof.)

[oursin]

I think I had that! actually I think I had two different volumes of Arthurian legends retold for the kiddiewinks, one at least of which included the begetting of Merlin by a demon and some fairly spooky other stuff with devil ships etc, probably a lot more disturbing to me than any sex stuff would have been, which would have gone right over my head.

[fyrdrakken]

Hmm, would that be the Disney animated version of The Sword in the Stone? Because I can remember seeing that as a kid, and in fact reading the book specifically because I remembered the movie. (Yeah, exactly right -- took out most of the animal stuff, Merlin's duel with Madame Mim was nonfatal, and the bit with going with Robin Hood and Marian to rescue people from Morgan le Fay was left out, too. Did the whole book, though -- ended it with the trip to London and Wart getting the sword out of the stone.)