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Legend of the Seeker anyone?

RedFenix said:
dragunzng said:
And yeah, the story was pants.
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Well, pants off, if the nude wizard was any indication...:p

I loved the music. Had a nice Celtic-y feel to it. The fight scenes and horse chase sequences were also pretty good. Overall, not a bad outing for the premiere...it'll keep me watching into next week. :)

The humor failed to deliver, though. There were a few lines of dialogue that were probably supposed to be funny, but fell flat. I think the show could do better to not take itself so seriously. Even Galactica, one of the darkest shows on T.V., can crack a joke without a "WAH-WAH-WAH" sounding off in my head.

Richard still needs to grow on me. He was better than expected, but if the show wants to capitalize on the "forbidden love" between him and Kahlan, the actors really need to work on that. The chemistry between those two is lukewarm at best.

And speaking of Kahlan, she was great! Looks the part and can hold her own.
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forbidden love... the series is 12 books of a love story.... with lots of entrails... limbs and dead children along the way... although i suspect they'll tone down the rape and dead children thing for tv...
 
TheSeeker said:
The exterior shot is fine, it was the interiors I was referring to. The set for the Palace was very lackluster in my opinion.
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it's not the Garden of life... I'd like to see that... I'd actually like to see the palace in the daylight instead of the middle of the night.






Afterthought: I really loved how Kahlan danced with that sword... You can tell her father taught her well... but then I guess he had no choice... mom would just tell him to teach her and he would... looks like the general/king taught his daughter swordwork rather well.
but thats expected from the books.
 
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Does anyone have a screencap of Ranssyn FANE? Preferably a close up of his face? :cool:
 
Allyn Gibson said:
The credits interestingly read that the first hour was based on Wizard's First Rule, while the second hour was based on The Sword of Truth series as a whole.
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There were some concepts that aren't introduced until later in the series--noticeably the journey book Rahl was using to communicate with his men--that were used in part 2.
 
Well I finally saw it, and, despite appointing myself chief Goodkind naysayer of the board, I rather enjoyed it. Its been a long time since I read "Wizard's First Rule", but I look back on it with affection as a good example of simple heroic fantasy and the series seems to use this as its inspiration:

I don't remember the specifics of the book very well, but I know what I just watched deviated a fair bit from it, but I don't really care because I enjoyed the show.

Things I liked:
Richard - Surprisingly good casting. He looked totally wrong when I first saw him in promos but he's a likeable chap who plays the part of the determined but overwhelmed hero of destiny very well. And during his final fight at the boundary, you could really see him becoming the Seeker.

Zedd - Pretty much how I imagined Zedd.

Chase - Not really what I imagined Chase would look like, but he was well played, suitably loyal and definitely tough enough.

Fayne (sp?) - Not a part I remember from the book, but his addition was a good way to give the first part of the story focus and keep the audience's attention in the first episode, by giving Richard and company a more immediate goal than Darken Rahl.

Kahlan - Bridget Regan is the best thing in the show so far. The guy who came here to pimp the show got it right, she is perfect casting (assuming your vision of Kahlan included an American accent, which I realise I just have to get used to, its ok, I'm over it). She's everything you want in a heroine, tough, likeable and very very pretty.

The fight choreography - a couple of rollicking good swordfights. Unbelievable in the extreme, but very well done, and hey, its a magic sword, so who cares about believability.

Things that weren't so good:
Darken Rahl - Wasn't he supposed to be blonde and look kind of tough? And ok, we're going with American accents (against my will) so the villain is the only brit in it, I know its a fairly cheesy fantasy programme, but that was pretty eye-rolling.

Fantasy on the small screen - has a tendency to look kind of... small?... I don't know, I don't think the film-makers did anything wrong in particular, but there was a slight air of unbelievability to the whole thing that you don't get in say LOTR, but I don't think it was necessarily a budget issue. I don't think the spirits of Xena and Hercules are completely absent from the production.

The lynch-mob on the bridge had some very dodgy acting and there were a couple of native Kiwis who just couldn't manage the american accent. I didn't care much for that scene, except for some fire from Zedd.




I'm not going to rag on the special effects however. They weren't the best, but it was clearly an expensive production, and some of them were very good indeed. I particularly liked the boundary effect, and the way it cast its light over the final fight. That whole sequence was really well done.

The whole story has an air of cliche about it. Simple working dude finds great destiny, mysterious woman, wise old mentor, dead parents, but I think that everyone involved is fully aware of this and is having a lot of fun. Not fun in the self-conscious BBC Robin Hood style of basically winking at the camera and saying "Look how much fun we're all having" but a harder-to-describe sense of everybody just trying their best with what they have. And although the story is cliche, the script serves it fairly well.

Well, I appear to have become some sort of cheerleader for a production based on Terry Goodkind's work. Will wonders never cease?
 
Bishbot said:
The lynch-mob on the bridge had some very dodgy acting and there were a couple of native Kiwis who just couldn't manage the american accent. I didn't care much for that scene, except for some fire from Zedd.
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I didn't care for it either, but that's because it completely lost Zedd applying the First Rule there. :(
 
It was quite archetypal, but I still enjoyed it. Half the fun was discovering how it differed from the books which keeps it interesting.
 
I've seen Bridget Regan in a couple of interviews and she has gorgeous legs which she apparently likes to show off so it's a shame that this series has her in such a chaste outfit.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I've seen Bridget Regan in a couple of interviews and she has gorgeous legs which she apparently likes to show off so it's a shame that this series has her in such a chaste outfit.
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Her outfit is actually rather sedate; I expected the Confessors' dress to be a bit more formal...
 
Now that this show has a few episodes under its belt (and this thread has popped up again), does anyone have a more detailed opinion of it. Is it really any good or not? How are the production values/acting/writing?
 
theenglish said:
Now that this show has a few episodes under its belt (and this thread has popped up again), does anyone have a more detailed opinion of it. Is it really any good or not? How are the production values/acting/writing?
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I said what I thought after seeing the pilot upthread, but I will add that I was a little disappointed in episode 3. It seemed a bit campier than the pilot (it probably wasn't, really, maybe I'm just not quite so forgiving this week). The monster was cheap and awful but Zedd isn't afraid to use his wizard's fire, which is pretty cool.

I'm going to keep watching this show. Its far from the best thing on tv, but I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with tuning in each week to watch a few sword-fights and Kahlan's cleavage.
 
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