The Shannara Chronicles
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I saw the behind-the-scenes feature and heard Poppy Drayton speaking with her real English accent. She is so much more expressive and interesting that way than with the bland American accent she affects in the show! Why didn't they let her use her real accent? Her father is played by John Rhys-Freaking-Davies! He has a British accent! Why doesn't she???
You should be asking why got an English accent and in the end he's a mere guest star. And they let the secret of his dog being the shapeshifter out of the bag, pretty much telegraphing his fate. but overall the show looks great, even though the quality of the location shooting doesn't quite match the visual effects.
I'm wondering about that evil druid-elf guy in his Black Henge thingy. Does he just stand around in the middle of that thing 24/7? If he can conjure up a giant stone circle, could he conjure up a bed or a couch or some books to read? Does he need to tweet his followers and ask them to send snacks?
Just saw the first 3 episodes and my reaction is kinda meh..
Maybe i am spoiled by the more grounded fantasy offerings since Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones but the high fantasy stuff like this just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Pretty young actors to appeal to the young audience and some known genre actors like Rhys Davies and Bennett, mediocre production values at times and awfully stilted dialogue and scripts just doesn't make it very interesting to me.
It felt more like what i did 20 years ago in my roleplaying group and it has nothing that truly stands out or makes it somewhat unique.
Manu Bennet though is cool.. liked him very much since i saw him in Spartacus but other than that there is nothing to keep me watching so i'll pass and wait for GoT season 6.
Maybe i am spoiled by the more grounded fantasy offerings since Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones but the high fantasy stuff like this just doesn't do it for me anymore.
Pretty young actors to appeal to the young audience and some known genre actors like Rhys Davies and Bennett, mediocre production values at times and awfully stilted dialogue and scripts just doesn't make it very interesting to me.
It felt more like what i did 20 years ago in my roleplaying group and it has nothing that truly stands out or makes it somewhat unique.
Manu Bennet though is cool.. liked him very much since i saw him in Spartacus but other than that there is nothing to keep me watching so i'll pass and wait for GoT season 6.
I call foreigners Yanking it up, "acting left handed" Christopher.
House.
Mentalist.
Banshee.
Chuck.
Homeland.
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
True Blood.
The Americans.
The Walking Dead.
The Wire.
Sons of Anarchy.
(And many, many more.)
'Watching Episode 4.
Meh.
Al-Anon... Is a support group for the friends and family of alcoholics, that's associated with Alcoholics Anonymous.
That alone throws me out of make-believe.
Waiting for fishlips to break into dance and song doesn't help much either.
House.
Mentalist.
Banshee.
Chuck.
Homeland.
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
True Blood.
The Americans.
The Walking Dead.
The Wire.
Sons of Anarchy.
(And many, many more.)
'Watching Episode 4.
Meh.
Al-Anon... Is a support group for the friends and family of alcoholics, that's associated with Alcoholics Anonymous.
That alone throws me out of make-believe.
Waiting for fishlips to break into dance and song doesn't help much either.
I decided to watch the second half.
Still no.
The excessive violence kind of bothered me, as well as the use of modern language. I know it's set in the future but it's the future in the past.
Shouldn't they have reverted back to Old English?
Also, it's pretty sexual for a show aimed at impressionable young teens.
Still no.
The excessive violence kind of bothered me, as well as the use of modern language. I know it's set in the future but it's the future in the past.
Shouldn't they have reverted back to Old English?
Also, it's pretty sexual for a show aimed at impressionable young teens.
Please stop saying this show is "aimed at impressionable young teens" as if it's some kind of negative universal truth. It's demeaning and dismissive, especially towards the novels upon which it's based.
There's NOTHING about the show that makes it "aimed at impressionable teens" other than the fact that four of its main characters happen to be young, and as a huge fan of the novels, it's bothering me that this misconception even exists.
There's NOTHING about the show that makes it "aimed at impressionable teens" other than the fact that four of its main characters happen to be young, and as a huge fan of the novels, it's bothering me that this misconception even exists.
Some children have been raised well Digfic.
Although, those boys and girl don't know what MTV is.
Although, those boys and girl don't know what MTV is.
It was not my intention to offend anyone. Just thinking out loud. The show is on MTV though, which is aimed at teenagers.
I'm at a loss.
What excessive violence?
What excessive violence?
^ The network the show is airing on means diddly-squat, at least when it comes to how the creators approached adapting the source material.
I saw something else today were it was explained how two men can have a baby together.
"We jizzed onto the same toilet, and then the toilet was struck by lightning."
This Shannara Chronicles thing is made for babybrains too lazy to sit through the monotonous talky talk in Lord of the Rings.
(I loath Lord of the Rings.)
"We jizzed onto the same toilet, and then the toilet was struck by lightning."
This Shannara Chronicles thing is made for babybrains too lazy to sit through the monotonous talky talk in Lord of the Rings.
(I loath Lord of the Rings.)
The sword fighting, the bloodiness, that winged demon tearing apart Amberle's aunt...
Maybe I'm just too sensitive. I'm okay with comedy violence: Xena and Ash. But the nitty gritty stuff makes me a little uncomfortable.
But now that you know what Banshee is like, Shannara should be a yawn.
I'm building up your tolerance slowly until you're ready for The Story of Ricky.
I'm building up your tolerance slowly until you're ready for The Story of Ricky.
I'm a non-book reader here... I just watched the two first hours.
I actually liked this much more than I expected. It is full of cliches, but it is a fun fantasy romp with great effects. (Almost a mirror of GOT) Some of the cast is also easy on the eyes, and that doesn't hurt.
I'm glad there's some good older cast to add some gravitas. I like the Druid guy.
I'll keep watching for now.
I actually liked this much more than I expected. It is full of cliches, but it is a fun fantasy romp with great effects. (Almost a mirror of GOT) Some of the cast is also easy on the eyes, and that doesn't hurt.
I'm glad there's some good older cast to add some gravitas. I like the Druid guy.
I'll keep watching for now.
It must feel like an acid flashback for Manu, after all that time stuck on Yian Yu.
Here its airing (streaming) on HBO Nordic. So the network doesnt really matter anywhere else than USA.
And lots of people watch it for free on Youtube, where the first episodes are available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPrHybyCRzw
The foreign markets are handled by different executives.
Piracy is handled by the FBI.
The concerns of the First set of Executives are to generate immediate profit on first run airing, which sets the tone for the future, or lack there of, of the product in the US.
Reruns are handled by someone else.
Syndication by someone else.
Legal Streaming by someone else.
International sales by someone else.
Physical media by someone else.
I count that as 6 soulless suits thunderdoming, who ever out of those six makes the most money selling the Shannara Chronicles gets a million dollar bonus at Christmas. Whoever makes the least, probably gets shitcanned.
Piracy is handled by the FBI.
The concerns of the First set of Executives are to generate immediate profit on first run airing, which sets the tone for the future, or lack there of, of the product in the US.
Reruns are handled by someone else.
Syndication by someone else.
Legal Streaming by someone else.
International sales by someone else.
Physical media by someone else.
I count that as 6 soulless suits thunderdoming, who ever out of those six makes the most money selling the Shannara Chronicles gets a million dollar bonus at Christmas. Whoever makes the least, probably gets shitcanned.
Uhh, language never works that way. Given that it's thousands of years into a post-apocalyptic future -- and given that they've actually evolved into entirely new species -- there's no way they'd be speaking any language we would recognize. Even if some descendant of English were still in use, it would be as profoundly transformed as American English is from its earliest Germanic forebears. What we're hearing is presumably translated for our benefit, so there's no reason not to render it in a modern idiom.
Besides, Old English doesn't mean a bunch of thees and thous and forsooths, if that's what you're thinking. Shakespeare's era marked the beginnings of Modern English. Middle English was the language of Chaucer. Old English was the language of Beowulf and would be incomprehensible to modern audiences.
How was this "pretty sexual?" There was nothing more here than some flirtation, a bit of making out between a boyfriend and girlfriend, and a couple of voyeuristic moments. It's no more sexual than a CW show. So far, even less so.
Also, I think you misunderstand who MTV's target audience is. It's not aimed at tweens like Nickelodeon. Wikipedia says its current target audience is high school and college-age. Most of its viewers are probably already having sex -- or if they aren't, they're thinking about it constantly and probably watching things online that are far more explicit than this.
