Legacy LD5

Just thought I'd share a moment from this week's Merlin. The show is really quite shockingly bad for the most part, but it does have the occasional dragon cameo, though he never does anything more than talk.

Dragon = Awesome.
Dragon + Classical British voice actor = Required.
Dragon + Laughing classical british voice actor = Win.

http://download.lavadomefive.com/members/aeon/laughing%20dragon.avi

Yay for John Hurt!

Huzzah for giggling dragons. And what appears to be a dragon who's actually a nice guy, not off burning the village. ^^

It's a bit up in the air; the dragon usually just gives out advice to solve the 'problem of the week', but he does seem to have some personal agenda, and Merlin had a big row with him at the end of the last season, though they seem to have reconciled now. (On screen, I think Merlin had to agree to free the dragon from the cave. Offscreen, there's probably all sorts of other favours involved; dragons are sneaky and manipulative and probably demand regular claw cleaning.)

It's from a BBC show called Merlin, which sort of turns the Athurian legend into a teenage soap opera with bad CG and worse acting. (there was quite a sexy gryphon in one episode - sadly a bad guy, hence killed).

But it does have this dragon guy in from time to time. And Richard Wilson (AKA the guy who has his face turned into a gas mask in that episode of Dr Who) as Merlin's mentor. And Anthony Head (that guy from the Nescafe Gold Blend adverts, or you might know him as Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as Uther Pendragon.

The best dragons are British dragons!

Only because we specialised in raptors...

Nice.
I didnt quite catch the situation that is so amusing, the princess of whom marrying a troll with the what now?
But its likely just the generic problem of the week or part of a plot that's not worth following I guess.

I am glad dragons get to have fun though. Or at least be amused.

Hey, I've just heard of Merlin here in Quebec and I saw that dragon in a small trailer announcing it's coming soon in November as a TV Show. I'm curious to see that! I'm wondering how he will sound in Quebecer though.

Do you mean in Canada everything that's not in french needs to have at least a french accent?

Excellent!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who cringes in miserable embarrassment through that show in the faint hope of seeing the dragon do something sexy.

Very nice capture, Aeon - many thanks!

Seems like I'm being steered away from more than one bad C/G British show recently. First that Prehistoric whatever series about the bad time travel and now this. The dragon is...well, he's okay, but he's a bit...fugly. Kinda like they didn't bake the dragon cake in the oven long enough. He's like if you took a wax figure of Draco from Dragonheart and put him in the sun for too long.

I never liked Draco's huge cheeks in Dragonheart, but I did like his overall spikeyness; nice big overlapping scales and stuff. I suppose the Merlin dragon could look a bit melty, the chest plates do look a bit like melted layers of wax.

Err... I don't see what you mean. Everything that's not in French will stay English (but an American/Canadian English, not British one) and everything that is in French here is "doubled" into Quebecer ("French Canadian", not "French European").

I meant to make a joke implying that British English is dubbed into Canadian English.
You got me confused now though, as you make it sound like you REALLY do something like that there.

I mean, seriously, nobody (at least nobody else) redubs something that is already English into another English with a different accent. Or Spanish into another Spanish or German into Austrian or Swiss-German or French into another French.
And I always assumed Canadians take either English or French. (and complain that its not the other )

This is uh...not necessarily true. I've seen it happen before.

Really? How very eerily anal for someone to do that. When did that ever happen?