The Grail

I'm surprised that this movie doesn't incorporate the Grail moreso into the story. I guess it would have been tough -- the movie focuses primarily on Merlin as he related to Arthur, and the Grail Quest was taken by Arthur's knights; the movie never depicts Galahad as an adult, only as a child; etc. etc.

But the movie focuses on the fact that the world was turning Christian and leaving the pagan ways, which is *so* golden for an Arthur movie. I mean, if you trace Arthur from Celtic myth to Malory's epic to Tennyson's "Idylls" you can see how the story of Arthur (and use of him as a hero figure) becomes so Christianized. And the Grail goes from a sacred pagan serving dish to the cup that caught the blood of Christ (both being tableware that provide a source of immortal renewal).

It just seems strange that the film doesn't make a bigger deal out of this. I think it could have been cool to have Mab trying to convince the people that the prized dish is one thing (pagan) and Arthur knows it to be another (Christian).

Yeah, it might have been contraversial for a television movie, but wasn't the whole theme of pagan vs. Christian a little contraversial already?