Four Ways 'Camelot' Isn't Your Grandmother's Arthur

The saga of King Arthur and his round furniture-loving knights has been done to death � so it�s no surprise that Starz�s new series, Camelot, changes a few key details in an attempt to inject new life into the story. While some of those tweaks are welcome (hello, Joseph Fiennes as a badass, baldheaded Merlin) others might end up rubbing Arthurites the wrong way. Here are the four main ways Camelot switches things up:

� The young Arthur himself is usually portrayed as a humble misfit � T.H. White nicknames the kid �Wart,� for Galahad�s sake. But the first time we see Camelot�s Arthur, he�s completely naked, cheekily quoting the Bible as he macks on a bodacious blonde. Later, Arthur�s foster brother Kay exposits that Arthur is a �golden child� who�s always gotten his way. So even though Jamie Campbell Bower�s wide eyes and regrettable peach fuzz semi-stache radiate youth and inexperience, this once and future king is far from modest.

� And speaking of nudity: In the grand tradition of naked history lessons like The Tudors andSpartacus: Blood and Sand, Camelot puts the female form on display early and often. (The first time we see Guinevere, she, too, is both top- and bottom-less.) An extended sex scene between Morgan (Eva Green) and King Lot (James Purefoy), in which the scheming sorceress demands that the warlord pledge fealty to her and �say [her] name,� is particularly gratuitous.

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