The Shannara Chronicles
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I still don't get who the woman was on the other side of the blood curtain and why she wanted Amberle to stay and where she would be staying if she had stayed. Seemingly if she had stayed everyone else would be fucked?
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The woman was a visual representation of the current Ellcrys, so Amberle is talking to the current dying tree. At no point did the woman ask Amberle to stay with her. What dialogue are you referring to?
i thought she was telling her to stay there.. not the tree. How would anyone know she was the tree? Doesn't Amberle refuse to stay and dramatically leave the blood?!
Nope, the woman didn't ask Amberle to stay because that would make no sense. The dialogue between Amberle and the women reveals she is talking to the Ellcrys. Amberle is in disbelief of what she must do. She must sacrifice her life to become the next Ellcrys. This is what Amberle is refusing to do.
Stupid tree. It couldn't tell her that when in one of her "I touched the tree" visions in the beginning?
I'll go rewatch it. It was totally unclear to me. Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea that was that the Ellcrys though Amberle did recognize her as the voice she'd been hearing all her life.. but I wasn't aware she had been hearing the Ellcrys all her life, I thought it was just when she touched it.
So that woman was the last poor sucker who had to live in a tree for hundreds of years!
I'll go rewatch it. It was totally unclear to me. Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea that was that the Ellcrys though Amberle did recognize her as the voice she'd been hearing all her life.. but I wasn't aware she had been hearing the Ellcrys all her life, I thought it was just when she touched it.
So that woman was the last poor sucker who had to live in a tree for hundreds of years!
^lol, yea. Well not your fault, the show didn't really make things clear at all and at the same time they expect you to remember stuff from episode 1.
I didn't read the books, but according to wikipedia they did use the flying creature to get back in the book. Which was probably part of the reason for introducing it in the first place... so why didn't the show do the same thing?
^I had the same thought.
I have a feeling they just really wanted to put that cave scene in.
So that's that.
I wanted to like Shannara so badly, but it fell flat in just about every way imaginable. Game of Thrones-Lite: 90210. I'm impressed I even stuck with it as long as I did, as it did not get better as the season progressed.
If there's a silver lining, I've become interested enough to read the books again. I only read the originals and Heritage series, and it's been ~20 years. Shannara and Ender are the first 'grown up' book series' I read as a kid.
I wanted to like Shannara so badly, but it fell flat in just about every way imaginable. Game of Thrones-Lite: 90210. I'm impressed I even stuck with it as long as I did, as it did not get better as the season progressed.
If there's a silver lining, I've become interested enough to read the books again. I only read the originals and Heritage series, and it's been ~20 years. Shannara and Ender are the first 'grown up' book series' I read as a kid.
Season one coming to DVD June 7th - http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Shannara-Chronicles-Season-1/22111
Yay!
I'm glad there are people on here who enjoyed it. I wanted to but I just couldn't get into it.
It's nice to see that this thread didn't go to waste.
It's nice to see that this thread didn't go to waste.
I had to quit because my girlfriend wanted the 6 hours of as yet unwtached Shannara Chronicles to do girl-shit like talking and flower arranging.
