There is one mainstay in Arthurian legend and that Arthur and Guinevere whether regardless of how else the tale goes Arthur and Guinevere have always been canon. Oh, OP, stop using the legend to support your bigoted worldview.
Never has. Never will. The Arthurian Legends are not for you. May I also point out that the original legends themselves are frequently historically inaccurate? Most mediaeval writers tended to impose features of their own current cultures and societies on a story that took place several centuries earlier- thus you will find stories of knights behaving in a very twelfth century manner, despite the Arthurian legend being nominally set in the fifth century, i. In Malory, written in the fifteenth century and the text which most mainstream modern works take as their basis, there are obvious customs and positions which would have been completely out of place a thousand years before.
Thus, if the versions of the legend on which our modern understanding of King Arthur is based are wildly inaccurate, how can we claim that Merlin is not in keeping with history, as we, in the tradition of our ancestors, are merely continuing to impose our own values on a well-known story?
The above relates to the tomato thing of course, as I would never claim for one minute that the idea of a black Guenevere is inaccurate. Is she not living in an area which the Romans had only recently pulled out of? What have I seen? The tough Amazon fighter hello, Zoe from Firefly! I can think of a few others, but they are dwarfed by the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of complex white characters I have seen on screen over the years.
But Gwen--Gwen was shy, and awkward, and endearing. She was sweet. I haven't seen a fictional sweet black girl in This isn't a coincidence. Like most black stereotypes, its roots go all the way back to slavery, but its persistence and widespread range is due to media in the present day.
There are other stereotypes for black women, of course--the most obvious being the subordination of their characters to white ones. I don't mean just in terms of power and authority within the fictional world though that certainly happens , but also in their degree of importance in the narrative, whether their conflicts and inner lives matter.
Does anyone remember the name of the women on Ally McBeal whose role was to hand Ally tissues? There's also a deeply-held racist belief that black women are undesirable, or ugly, or good for sex but not real relationships and boy does this have roots in slavery. So by casting a black woman as Gwen, the show did a potentially radical thing.
You are so right…We have BET.. Black Entertainment Television available on cable. Do you think there could ever be a network for whites only? The beautiful Arthurian legends should be left alone. Plus, it is unlikely that a black woman would have been accepted enough to even work in the castle.
I preferred Gwen in the first series, she was more in it and had more of a say. Hopefully this one will be! You are an idiot. It depends if historical context comes into play. My answer to the first question is perhaps she was the best actress for the role.
And when we get a depiction, in movies or television, other than that, we are jarred from our pleasant reality. Some simple information…the Roman Empire conquered Britain long before it was its own sovereign nation. Since the Roman Empire stretched down into Ethiopia it stands to reason that there were Africans in the Roman army who could have been in Britain having descendants who could be Queen Guinevere This is a stretch, but not outside the realm of possibility.
The answer to the first question is disturbing because the writer takes it to another level.
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