Guys, I'm legit confused...
I totally understand the beginning of the story, although some things are just too weird and are not really realistic. I mean, if a dude walked up to me and said that he had a bunch of people as his prisoners and there wasn't anything I would do about it, I wouldn't just say "Meh.. you're right!" and move on! Come on, Arthur! Get your shit together! Be a king and whoop some ass!
What I'm confused about is Lancelot's little tryst in the woods.
So he and Gawain come across a lady in the woods. Totally got it there.
She tells them to pick a path. They do. Got that, too.
Lancelot gets to his path totally consumed with Love. (But, um... Who is he in love with? Queen G?)
He duels. He wins. Lady in the woods comes back and says, "Hey Mr. Sexy Knight! If you let this guy live and grant him mercy, I'll repay you with something you'll like very much *wink wink*" (AHEM, I think she means the Hoo-Hah here)
BUT THEN!! Good ol' Lance "realized who she was from her statement" and Lady "was ashamed and embarrassed to think he might have recognized her"
Sooo...... Who is she? Queen G? Some mysterious fairy woman? WHO!?
She says, "Hey, I'll give you my Hoo-Hah" and he says:
But she's like, "Take my Hoo-Hah!!" and he says "Alright, chill. I'll do it but I'm not happy about it"
Then Lady almost gets raped... Then somehow wants to have the sex with Lance afterwards.
She becomes super needy throughout their journey, and a tad bit shady.
Then after a while, Lance goes to fight King M. for Queen G.
BUT I STILL DON'T KNOW WHO THE LADY IS!!!!
I feel like there is this whole backstory about Lance and Queen G. and this mysterious lady that I'm just not privy too and it's pissing me off. Like, I want to know all the dirty details about what's going on but I feel like I'm missing a huge chunk of the story. I KNEW I should have taken Dr. MB's Arthurian class!
I'm not off to a good start with this story. Hopefully it will get better but for now:
YES!
ReplyDeleteI am so completely and utterly LOST with all the side events.
This lady you're speaking of...who the hell is she? Where did she come from? What's her deal with the hoo-hah (the seduction and sudden fake rape?!)? I could go on, but you get it. I wish I knew what her story with Lancelot is.
Then there's the bridges, and the weird places Lancelot accepts hospitality. Biggest question with all these households: how many knights are in this mysterious land we're supposedly trapped in? I feel like every time Lancelot turned around we're hearing about a new knight or king.
I think my biggest problem with all of these 'extra' characters and the their parts in the story is that we're not given names. At one point I became so confused. I had know idea who we were fighting, where we were, or why we were fighting. Give these people some names, and use them often instead of 'lady,' 'knight,' 'man,' etc. and I'll be able to make more sense of it all.
I think.
I love how your blog post matched the weird, sudden adventures Lancelot was thrown into. I completely agree that this woman was just utterly insane. Especially when Lancelot gave her Guinevere's comb after meticulously plucking her hairs out of it. Still in shock that she was still all about that comb even though she had an idea that it was G's. She's super obsessive and I'm glad she has left the premises of the story
ReplyDeleteYES YES YES!!!!
ReplyDeleteI cannot even begin to tell you how happy I am that you posted this! I was super confused about that too! sometimes I even wondered if this mysterious lady was even necessary because she blew my mind. I feel like if there were going to be additional characters, that they should have been named. I totally get why Lance was not named in the begininng of the story but all of the other characters made the story so questionable. Needless to say, WE NEED A BACK STORY even if we make one up it has to happen because she is a huge distraction to all of us!