I don't understand the modern AU thing. I can't see the point. It's like non-magic AUs in HP. To me, if there's no magic, then why bother writing about Harry Potter? And if there are no knights etc (and, for that matter, no magic), why bother writing about Merlin?
Obviously there are many people who disagree with me, just as there are many people who like non-magic HP stories. Maybe I'm just weird - but I've read thousands of HP stories (literally - I have almost 4000 bookmarked, and I haven't bookmarked all the ones I've read) and I've never yet enjoyed any non-magic ones. Not even a little bit. (I've only tried a few, but those were all ones that everyone RAVES about, and I hated them all!) So I have no wish to try modern AU Arthur/Merlin.
(The fact that I imagine there's far less likelihood of Arthur doing that swishy thing with his sword is only ONE reason! Honest!)
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Date: 2011-05-17 10:54 pm (UTC)Obviously there are many people who disagree with me, just as there are many people who like non-magic HP stories. Maybe I'm just weird - but I've read thousands of HP stories (literally - I have almost 4000 bookmarked, and I haven't bookmarked all the ones I've read) and I've never yet enjoyed any non-magic ones. Not even a little bit. (I've only tried a few, but those were all ones that everyone RAVES about, and I hated them all!) So I have no wish to try modern AU Arthur/Merlin.
(The fact that I imagine there's far less likelihood of Arthur doing that swishy thing with his sword is only ONE reason! Honest!)