Yeah, I know you never got into the show. Arthurian legend isn't part of my heritage the way it is yours so perhaps that's one of the reasons I can take the show at more of its (often silly) face value and just enjoy the pretty?

Camelot transcending the actual city. - this, yes, very much. In dithering about the title I did idle research about Camelot and how historians/archaeologists have tried to equate it with a number or towns, past and current, but nothing really seems to stick convincingly. So it seems to me that Camelot is significant not because of being a real place, but because of what it represents; safety, prosperity, magic, hope etc. A Jungian archetype of sorts...

you make us see Nimueh, and many of the 'classical' writers don't manage that. - that's some compliment there! thank you so much, I'm practically preening :D