originally posted on tumblr, Sep 25th 2025
heeeey time to put my arthuriana tinfoil hat on!!
So it's already been pointed out that between Guinevere and the Sir Arthur mecha, we might have some round table shenanigans going on in the background. Mind you we only have the pilot to work with, so this is very much just baseless speculation and unrepentant slapping roles around.
Guinevere is Guinevere, nice and clean. The main aspect of her character in arthuriana stories is her courtly love affair with Lancelot while being married to Arthur. It could be that the unnamed male character from some of the promos we see in the pilot is called Lancelot or smth like it, but there is another character who is very very close to Gwen.
Frankie! It's also been pointed out that she has a bit of a Disney princess vibe going on with her robots and doodads, and even has the "animal sidekick" in Boombox. Lancelot is the orphan heir to a lost kingdom, making him effectively a prince, so that's one possible connection. He was also raised by fairies as a child, and her hallucinations of the Star Pups feel rather poignant. She also seems to have an aggressive streak when called for, and Lancelot was known for his fits of anger.
(also can i be even more of a pusher for it, but the unnamed Ken guy has brown fluffy hair, earrings, and his circlet also has a star like Frankie's knight hairtie. Frankie also has a purple cap to his purple circlet. their noses are also kinda similar too?? alright moving on!)
I won't go further on the plot beats involving Lancelot cus it's unlikely to be a one-to-one retelling after all, and I won't do Dana and the team the disservice of going there either. this is themes and vibes mostly.
I will say however, that besides Guinevere, Lancelot's closest relationship in the mythos is with Galehaut.
Galehaut was a half giant, poised to usurp Arthur's throne and kingdom, but he becomes so enraptured by Lancelot's skills, he gives up his goals for the kingdom just for a chance to being Lancelot's friend. They are so close, that Galehaut dies of grief when news of Lancelot's alleged death reach him. Yes, those chapters sometimes feel like they were written with rainbow-colored pens.
Dana has stated that there won't be a romantic line between Franki and Andi, so that's a scratch off, but we don't need them to be romantic for this connection to be still possible.
For one, Andi and Frankie have always been close friends, and the broken sword/shield symbolism around them make them a codependent duo. Likewise, Andi has been shown to "borrow" from Frankie's knowledge in robotics, since she's clearly the one with the skills to handle the job of engineer.
Part of me believes this is in part because Andi is an enabler for Frankie's rose-tinted idealism. The truth of the park's labs and likely the cutthroat inner machinations there would likely demolish Frankie's love for the craft (a grim mirror of how the entertainment business chews you up into irrecoverable burnout and spits you out), thus her taking on that job despite being unwilling seems more for Frankie's benefit than her own.
Regardless, her closeness to Frankie and willingness to help her with the Gwen droid mirrors how Galehaut not only swears companionship to Lancelot, but also wields Lancelot to Guinevere as her champion and lover.
And it has been pointed out that Andi has blue lung, or the beginnings of it, and Galehaut does die in the myths so um. oops??
Oh! I also wanna point out that in Arthuriana, there is the False Guinevere arc, where the evil half-sister of Guinevere turns Arthur against the real Gwen, and sends both the real Guinevere and Lancelot away, and they are both sheltered by Galehaut. make that what you will <3
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