Saturday, November 26, 2011

Camelot - Justice

I actually thought this episode of Camelot was a bit pedestrian as we get stuck into the actual running of the kingdom and the different ways of winning the people over between Arthur and Morgan.
Arthur comes across a village about to hang a man who is accused of murder.  Arthur wants to change the way justice is doled out in his new kingdom and demands a trial be held at Camelot.  The villagers want to kill the man because they have their own form of justice, but Arthur and his knights enforce their law.  As it happens, the village leader (the strongest family) has the 'right' to take the virginity of all the women in the village, but the man fought against this.  Arthur finds this practice abhorrent (funny, considering he took Guinevere's virginity! Ah it's good to be the king!).
Meanwhile Morgan is trying to convince the people of the kingdom that they aren't safe under Arthur's rule and to prove a point, her nun hires a man to beat her savagely.  They then practice their own form of justice and entrap him and kill him before the people, showing they will have a swift response to any crimes.
Who will the people follow?  Yeah, lets get back to the sex and magic and fast.

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