Thread:Adelina Le Morte March/@comment-4640114-20121025190905/@comment-5659316-20121026171935

(Sorry, that lurker in the woods was me, but my internet was giving me trouble and I forgot to sign in yesterday night)

Yes, Lancelot is a total dork. I have only read ONE book in which I actually liked his character; in everything else I've found him to be an annoying gary-stu. Which, basically IS exactly what he was invented by French writers who retold Arthurian Legends to be! Think of it as the very first King Arthur fanfiction. They weren't happy with Guinevere being happy with Arthur (or, every once in a while, Bedivere), nope, they had to invent this "perfect" knight and DARE to put him on level (some even saying he was BETTER THAN) Sir Tristan (as if!) and have Guinevere find "True Love" with him, saying she only really loved Arthur as a father or a brother and that he was SOOOO much older than her. It was pathetic in the middle-ages, and it's still pathetic now, LOL.

I didn't like Lancelot in Merlin either. He's too perfect, even as a shade he only does the wrong thing because Morgana swipped his memory. At least Gwaine's funny and has a vice or two (he drinks too much and gets into trouble). Lancelot had NOTHING, he was just perfect, and everybody loved him, including Merlin and Arthur and, of course, Gwen. Yawn.