Man, surprised to read this thread. Show is not...good? I don't know. Leaving the absolute dogshit animation aside (Seriously, I actually closed my video player because I thought it was lagging) but the story is just, off. Got to episode 6 with my kids and they got bored and I don't really have the drive to continue. Characters are frustrating, clumsy and clearly serve the plot rather than the plot being driven by them. Why did the Assassin start to trust the humans? Why did the humans who even say they don't trust the assasin, choose to lock up the woman he really likes in order to help the assassin who broke in to kill a fucking child? Why are the humans apologizing constantly when their history has a mass expulsion from the dragon assholes that probably wiped out many many people, all due to the "crimes" of one guy? You're literally going to displace an entire race, steal all their land, and fuck up their lives (Potentially killing thousands) and denying them access to extremely valuable resources because of a single dude, and then act like they attacked wihtout provocation later? What? And on that note, were there even crimes? So far "dark magic" seems to just be extracting magic from meat. Do none of the magical creatures eat meat?
I get they are probably planning on exploring this as the show goes on, but the problem is, by the main characters not displaying these different points of view and DEFENDING it, it robs any arc between them for resolution. There really is no tension or misunderstanding there--the humans are wrong, and they constantly apologize for it. It seems like the counter weight here is supposed to be the elves killing the King, which eventually will add to this disagreement/tension, but it should already be there--even if the humans were wrong, the prince, who was raised to believe the humans were right, should start out disagreeing with the elf lady. Instead he flat out says 'you're right, we're bad, let me help you!'....Again, where does that come from? Are the humans taught from a young age what assholes their fore-bearers were? The elf claims they "murdered the dragon"--why doesn't the human say "the dragon which drove my people from their homes and cut us off from the primal magic?"--because it seems like that would be a pretty big fucking deal. But nope, its just "I'm sorry for what humans did" (Literally the line, lol. Its so awkward. )
Also the show has a real problem with telling not matching the showing--super unstoppable assassins run into about an even number of human guards and get....wiped the fuck out? Why were the humans worried about these clowns? Oh, I know why--because they have a host of powers that make them into spider-man with knives, except in that hallway scene they forgot to use them all. Why? I don't know if its just that it was too short a season to let the characters grow organically or actually explore the depth of this kind of conflict, but right now its treating the elf and older kid kid with the same naivety and innocence toward past wrongs as the 7 year old kid, and it screams of characters who are acting the way the plot needs.