From Twitter 09-12-2010

[scarfman]

• 10:16:55: Depends on if she learned. RT @MeagenImage @AKOTAS Was the damage to console/head worth that lesson?
  
• 14:25:51: Gotten to the #Leverage season finale on the DVR without being spoiled by any flists.
  
• 18:12:18: Studying today I've eaten most of an 18 oz jar of cheese puff balls. I wonder whether the bookstore won't buy this book back.
  
• 19:02:35: #AKOTAS updated: The difference is... http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2307.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
  
• 19:52:40: So much for building a two-week buffer during the False Guenevere episode. The buffer right now is comprised of Tuesday's.
  
• 20:00:36: That commercial was for "new Tide Original".
  

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Comments

[alienfish.livejournal.com]

In Japan, it's still early in Leverage, Season 1. The episode with the horses aired last week.

[keith-martin.livejournal.com]

Hi Paul. Under today's AKOTAS you say In the Reader I found it ambiguous whether Arthur is genuinely taken in by the False Guenevere, because the scene when he rules in her favor is one briefly summarized instead of reproduced in full.

I have a copy of the full Lancelot-Grail (bought with part of a redundancy payment a couple of years ago - I'd wanted to read it for a long time).

Some quick research: The original reading seems to be that Arthur was deceived. The key bit is after the false Guenevere falls ill - Arthur himself becomes ill and makes a confession to a priest: "Yet I didn't take her with any thought of committing a sin, seeing that all the barons of the land [actually the barons of Carmelide/Cameliard] said she was my true wife and I was wrong to be living with the other one. But I believe that what doomed me was that I left her without the consent of the church ..."

Later, when the false Guenevere confesses, the text says "But the king was as overwhelmed as any man could be, never having imagined that a woman's heart would dare undertake such treason."

[scarfman]

Thanks. I actually have been meaning to review the priest scene, which is reproduced in the Reader, with an eye to discerning Arthur's disposition on the issue; but I've been unable to locate my copy.

[keith-martin.livejournal.com]

Looking over the sequence in the Lancelot-Grail some more, there are definite indications that Arthur is just more attracted to the false Guenevere than the real one - at least after she kidnaps him for several days and basically seduces him. I read it as saying that Arthur welcomed the testimony of the Carmelide barons, since it validated what he wanted to do anyway.

However, the narrative then gives Arthur a break by painting false-Guenevere as a sorceress. "Indeed the woman had bewitched him with drugs and spells ..." - though it seems a bit inconsistent about that.