More Norse Gods

Apparently, Thor is not the only god making an on screen debut.  I ran across this review of Supernatural Season 5 Volume 2.

"Odin, Loki and Baldur are among a group of gods who demon-slaying brothers Sam and Dean Winchester encounter as they race to stop the end of the world.



Loki is another guise of the archangel Gabriel, while Kali, Ganesh, Mercury, Zao Shen and Baron Samedi are also in the mythological group who find themselves up against Lucifer himself as they try to prevent Apocalypse."

All this and a demonic Paris Hilton too.  Now it sounds like my kind of show, but as I am right now trying to get through Lost on Netflicks, I am wary about dragging myself into another convoluted show and with this season DVD being released in volumes, well, I would say that this qualifies as a convoluted program. 

Curious, anyone watch this show?  Is it worth putting in the time just to get to see some Norse gods kicking Lucifer's butt?

Clash of the Gods

Clash of the Gods is not a mistype on my part.  It is a great TV series on the History channel.  I recently found it and caught a few episodes.  Yes, it is a documentary and suffers from the ailments that all documentaries suffer from, but it is very informative and entertaining.  I am DVRing them now and watching them when I have the TV to myself.  I saw one recently on sacrificing to the gods that was pretty bloody and really got me attention.  For the fainter at heart, most shows don't go for gore factor.

While most seem to focus on the Greek and Roman myths, there are plenty that cover bits of Norse, Celtic, and even Aztec.  They have a series of episodes on Hercules and I have two I've yet to watch on the myth origins of Beowulf and the Tolkien stories.

You can check out the show's web site here:
http://www.history.com/video.do?name=ClashoftheGods

I give this a 4 lightning bolts out of five.  Check it out!  Leave a post if you've caught an episode or two and let me know what you think.

Merlin

Sundays at 8:00 pm you can catch a fairly new show on NBC called Merlin.  I'm a King Arthur fan as much as the next guy so I gave it a whirl and I have mixed feelings about it.  I do like having a show with the Camelot cast, it's on in the summer, so I have some time to catch it (although I'm DVRing it and watching it whenever), and the stories are nice, simple fun.  There is a good supporting cast.  However, the pros seem to end here.

I can get past changing the traditional storyline of Arthur since pretty much every author has his/her own take on the famous king - sometimes Mordred a cool guy, sometimes he is a bad guy, and sometimes (as in Excalibur) he is an annoying little kid laughing while hanging grail knights from a tree.  The storyline here is that Uther is still alive and hates magic because of something that happened when Arthur was born.  Igarine is nowhere in sight and Morgana is like an adopted sister to Arthur.  Merlin, who is a bumbling Clark Kent like character, is Arthur's manservant and saves his life on a routine basis using magic (in secret of course).  Guinevere is Morgana's servant and does NOT look the part at all.  That I have a problem with.  I do not like the character of Guinevere anyway (little strumpet), but I hate it even more now.  The actress is a fine enough person and I have no problems with her, but she is just not a Guinevere to me.  Also, I am wondering why they are creating so many new characters when there are plenty of established ones in the Arthurian canon to pull from.  Oh and lastly, the opening credits make it look like it will be worse than a Sci-Fi original movie.  

I give it 2 1/2  lightning bolts out of 5.  My wife agrees, but gives it a 3.  As she says, it's good, but it is not like 24 where it is, "Oh my gosh, we can't miss it!" type of good.  what do you think, those of you who've seen it.  Care to weigh in?