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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1294523" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, I thing you're lacking perspective on that one.  You need to consider who produced Prince Valiant.  The Family Channel, in it's original incarnation (i.e. Pat Robertson and friends) produced the show.  Hence, there could be no magic, few if any fantastic elements, very little violence and they sometimes went way out of their way to try and be politically correct.  A classic example is the episode with the thinly vieled 'children shouldn't play with gu....err, crossbows' plot.  Pity, that. However, the idea of a black knight is not on the list of political correct mistakes, per se.  Prince Valiant's cartoon was, because they didn't use the actual members of the Round Table who were black (or Moors, technically), but instead invented one...showing that they really weren't that aware of the source material at all.  The knight Pallamedes, a companion to Sir Tristam supposedly named for the figure from Greek mythology, was clearly defined as being black and a moor, being the only knight to carry two swords (as he was ambidextrous).  So too was Sir Morien, the literal Black Knight, who once fought Lancelot, saves Gawain and then goes on to join the Round Table. Oh, and ss for James Earl Jones, he mentioned that he'd be doing about 5 minutes worth of dialogue for the end of Episode III at a public speaking event back in January of 2003.</blockquote>