Reminder: legend of the Seeker starts this weekend!
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Should be good.
is there one new episode or two airing tonight???
It was syndicated oddly this week. There is only 1 new episode but most stations will be airing a 2 hours "premiere" with the first hour being a repeat of last seasons finale.
The prem was was quite good; it didn't feel as episodic as last year's episodes did, but I'm sure next weeks will be back to the ol' season one feel.
During the 'bathhouse' scene I kept looking at my tv and wishing it said HBO... 
They really tried to jam a fair amount into the s2 premiere, some of it worked, some of it felt pretty rushed.
They really tried to jam a fair amount into the s2 premiere, some of it worked, some of it felt pretty rushed.
A couple of the things that felt off. It seemed like this 'village' they were residing in was pretty damned close to D'Hara and the People's palace and the Mord'Sith training caves and everything else. Something about it just seemed odd to me, like it was supposed to be a Mid-Lands village, but in that case it shouldn't have been that close to a Mord'Sith training grounds which are in D'Hara.
The way Richard's parentage was explained seemed to happen REALLY DAMNED FAST. I was like "Woah dude, take a breath..."
Cara is delicious
But I'm wondering what's up with the rest of the Mord'Sith because I'm assuming that wasn't all of them that were wiped out. In the books Denna (the Mord'sith who tortured Richard) was killed by Richard, in the tv show she wasn't so she's still out there. Other Mord'Sith play important roles later on in the books so I'm guessing what we saw was just a faction of Mord'Sith and not all of them wiped out.
The one thing the show has going for it that I actually think Terry Goodkind regretted doing was solving the Richard/Kahlen intimacy problem. It's solved in the first book and actually is a reason for the defeat of Darken Rahl by Richard. However, once Goodkind solved it over the course of the series he would proceed to invent plot-point after plot-point specifically to separate Richard and Kahlen and not have them be able to be together.
The show still has Kahlen's confessor powers preventing intimacy so hopefully it can avoid having to do as much. I mean in the books Richard's kidnapped/trapped/abducted/imprisoned more then Kim Bauer.
The way Richard's parentage was explained seemed to happen REALLY DAMNED FAST. I was like "Woah dude, take a breath..."
Cara is delicious
But I'm wondering what's up with the rest of the Mord'Sith because I'm assuming that wasn't all of them that were wiped out. In the books Denna (the Mord'sith who tortured Richard) was killed by Richard, in the tv show she wasn't so she's still out there. Other Mord'Sith play important roles later on in the books so I'm guessing what we saw was just a faction of Mord'Sith and not all of them wiped out.The one thing the show has going for it that I actually think Terry Goodkind regretted doing was solving the Richard/Kahlen intimacy problem. It's solved in the first book and actually is a reason for the defeat of Darken Rahl by Richard. However, once Goodkind solved it over the course of the series he would proceed to invent plot-point after plot-point specifically to separate Richard and Kahlen and not have them be able to be together.
The show still has Kahlen's confessor powers preventing intimacy so hopefully it can avoid having to do as much. I mean in the books Richard's kidnapped/trapped/abducted/imprisoned more then Kim Bauer.
Dunno. There was a lot of talk of it here during the first season. It's filmed in New Zealand, using the same area as Hercules and Xena. Many of the recurring stars and guest stars are also from Hercules and Xena. It has the same feel as those shows, with makes it feel both familiar and fun.
Of course, it wasn't until I had seen a huge version of this picture that I just had to tune in to the premiere. And I've not missed an episode.
Not bad so far, I just never quite get why they change some of the things they do, from a plot/background point. Seems that sometimes they go out of their way to change things from the books, even if it doesn't matter at all.
For example, to pull something from last year, Richard and Darken are brothers in this version. It doesn't change anything from a plot standpoint, but why make the change at all? It would have been just as easy to keep it father/son, and then things with Richard's brother and sister later on kinda fit better than Panis Rahl having to have that many MORE secret children... They haven't done anything with this that would be different as father/son vs brothers, so why make the change? Just odd little things like that that kinda nag at me occasionally.
Still a fun series, and I like having it on the DVR for the weekends. Now I just have to try and remember more from book 2, that one was a while ago...
For example, to pull something from last year, Richard and Darken are brothers in this version. It doesn't change anything from a plot standpoint, but why make the change at all? It would have been just as easy to keep it father/son, and then things with Richard's brother and sister later on kinda fit better than Panis Rahl having to have that many MORE secret children... They haven't done anything with this that would be different as father/son vs brothers, so why make the change? Just odd little things like that that kinda nag at me occasionally.
Still a fun series, and I like having it on the DVR for the weekends. Now I just have to try and remember more from book 2, that one was a while ago...
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I dunno about this episode, could've used more violence, ugly cgi monsters and evil chicks in tight leather outfits.
Actually, what I really don't get is the underworld crap. DEATH WILL TAKE OVER? Umm...huh? No, really...what the hell...is it death or a Devil entity. Either way, hokey to the max.
Actually, what I really don't get is the underworld crap. DEATH WILL TAKE OVER? Umm...huh? No, really...what the hell...is it death or a Devil entity. Either way, hokey to the max.
They killed the black man quick. Damn, fantasy is as bad as sci-fi.
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