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The red shirts of camelot, from the show Merlin (which is shown on the Sci-Fi... I mean SyFy channel), seem rather similar to some other well known red shirts from Star Trek TOS, especially in the fact that they appear and then they die somewhere in that episode leaving Kirk and Spock, aka Merlin and Arthur, to be the lone survivors.
The "oh noes" faces of Merlin and Arthur say it all.
Merlin belongs to BBC and possibly SyFy.
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yep, red shirts are redunant cos they hardly ever wear them, besides, don't Merlin wear a red shirt?
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Here he has a blue one but he might wear red sometimes.... I forget.
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swear i've seen him in red, he switches red and blue neckerchiefs, i know that
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I love Arthur he be SEXY
I based one of my characters off of Bradley James' looks
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You're definitely a big fan of his
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OH Yeah, I am. Very much
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Tara says:
Yes! Finally someone else who noticed that!
They are very much the red shirts of Camelot.
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Time to see the doctor. XD
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Alas, too late! "He's dead, Jim."
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Could always pull a Spock: Get shot into space then come back alive in the next film.
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There we go, could raise back to life an army of redshirts assuming there's a newly terraformed planet nearby.
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Everything has the expendables also known as Red Shirt syndrome
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All those poor expendables, and they never see it coming. lol, though if they did have a red shirt and realized it and got out of there... it wouldn't be long before the main characters hear a bloodcurtling scream of that escaping red shirt dying some gruesome death.
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And then the inevitable "He's dead, Jim." lol. Main characters must used to the screams of dying red shirts...
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Indeed, with the 
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hahahaha it's so so true. it's always the red shirts. doesn't even matter what show it's from.
(i've totally never watched Merlin...)
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That it is, poor red shirts. And none of them ever seem to realize it!
(If you do, you can see a lot of red shirts die 
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maybe i'll add it to my list of "things i need to accomplish" which includes tv shows, video games, and movies. among other things. the list is getting quite long, actually...
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Sounds like a plan... and a very long list. how long is it? accomplishable within a lifetime?
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Oh yes, very much so. I mean, come on, I've got a whole lifetime ahead of me. The world is my oyster! Isn't that the mindset I should have now that i'm done with college?
...right?
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I suppose, assuming you look at it from a more optimistic point of view. A realist or perhaps pessimist might say tomorrow is no garuntee and don't forget those stupid.. I mean student loans that need to be paid off! I think I prefer a somewhat more optimistic view here...
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And I am SO not an optimist. Damn you, real world!
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Indeed, realism always has to try and spoil the fun. lol
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rofl
They are indeed like the res shirts in Star Trek. I wonder how they keep finding more knights to replace all the ones that die or are banished. I mean, there are only so many noble families with sons the right age....
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Good question... clearly the nobles have little to do in their life but produce knights for their king... << And what of the more common soldiers, do they have to be noblemen to? If so... there must be more noblemen than they, or the book of geniologies lets on. If not then Arthur better stop bringing knights and rely more on foot soldiers... lol
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And, if all the nobles keep dying from battles... there won't be any more left for the future king. xD
Hmm I don't think there were foot soldiers in that time. There was the king, knights, merchants, and then serfs. Though I suppose they don't stick to that really as they had Arthur teaching the people how to use weapons in one of the episodes. xD
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Have to make some more commoners into nobles I guess... though I don't think they would. lol Hmm, maybe they just lower their standards on the ones that can't pass the training.
Not sure, though you figure a kingdom would need an army and not enough nobles to be enough knights for battle. Yeah, so clearly commoners can bear arms.
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But... Uther wouldn't like that at all! Now, Arthur might do something like that. And must in this story- if he's going to marry Gwen.
Well, it is the same for all those little countries. So they all don't have many warriors to fight. Made wars easier probably. XD
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Arthur probably would if they could pass the training, like he would have for lancelot.
lol, this war consists of 100 noblement knights vs 108 noblemen knights. Have at yea!
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Yeah. Arthur isn't as stubborn as his dad.
Or they could even settle it with a tournament. lol
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Yupyup, sees more of his people and what they face.
lol, jousts! probably did for some conflicts.
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Yeah. Uther just takes it all for granted....
We win! Your representative fell off the horse. XD
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Thinks they all have to do certain jobs and can't do anything else. Used to his ways and everything he has.
Sounds like a better way than some today
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It'd be much faster and quicker. And less dying.
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Yupyup, only a couple days rather than months or years and only wounded pride and hurt shoulders/chests.
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Or if they cheat and have a pointy blade pop out.
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Hmm, they'd have to have some pretty strict laws on that.
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Yeah. Well, they probably would too... I mean baseball has tons of rules about the bats you can use. XD
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True so one law would be that no sharp pointing blades, any contestant found using one automatically loses and is kicked out, and no declarations of war can result... or something like that.
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Probably. They'd probably make it overcomplicated if it is the govt making the rules... XD
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Yupyup, because they like complex rules that confuse you so they can claim to be smarter than you and thus you need them to rule you and then they can interpret the law how they choose.
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