The Shannara Chronicles
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Finally decided to try this and binged all 4 episodes. Much better than I expected. Yep, the girls are hot, but the princess can't keep the upper hand during a physical confrontation at all. It was kinda funny when they had Crixxus do the slow motion sword action, just like in Spartacus. The show has hooked me. I will continue to watch.
I'm three in and pretty torn at this point, always was a fan of Brooks and the Shannara series.
It's basically a MTV version so I'll just have to live with it but I'm having a hard time with Manu as Allanon, loved him in Spartacus and Arrow but he's just not doing it for me as the Druid and it's been a few since I've read the early stuff but I don't remember a fancy collapsing sword just staff, sword and the occasional Druid fire.
Really like the world building with the ancient ruins of Seattle, always wondered in the early books if it was our world thousands of years later and with Brooks tying it together it makes me smile.
I'll take Amberle over Ercetria though!
It's basically a MTV version so I'll just have to live with it but I'm having a hard time with Manu as Allanon, loved him in Spartacus and Arrow but he's just not doing it for me as the Druid and it's been a few since I've read the early stuff but I don't remember a fancy collapsing sword just staff, sword and the occasional Druid fire.
Really like the world building with the ancient ruins of Seattle, always wondered in the early books if it was our world thousands of years later and with Brooks tying it together it makes me smile.
I'll take Amberle over Ercetria though!
I wish Manu was in something really good again, but until then this will due.
Why isn't that guy making movies tho.
Why isn't that guy making movies tho.
She definitely isn't bad on the eyes
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Kinda funny this show has stupidly hot women very pretty boys and then one bad as MOFO gladiator from spartacus. That guy looks like he is randomly going to crush all the waifs around him with his awesomeness.
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It's better than Legend of the Seeker. Shannara actually, so far, mostly, follows the book. Kind of...
Seeker wasn't terrible if you were looking for Hurcules/Xena type show with a couple hot women. But if you were looking for a Sword of Truth adaptation, then yeah... bad.
At least give Shannara a shot if you liked Elfstones. I didn't like it at first but I've changed my mind starting with episode 3.
Seeker wasn't terrible if you were looking for Hurcules/Xena type show with a couple hot women. But if you were looking for a Sword of Truth adaptation, then yeah... bad.
At least give Shannara a shot if you liked Elfstones. I didn't like it at first but I've changed my mind starting with episode 3.
As a comparison this is a step up from the series the originals, of which I could only take about 10 episodes. If you watched that. But at the same time it is a big step down from Game Of Thrones.
For me, this has a lot of red flags up already (after 3 episodes and a half).
Love triangle, clumsy/forced emotional scenes. The acting is borderline. This is also fairly heavy on the teen romance as well.
I don't remember much about the books at all, but this kind of reminds me of taking a great tale then imprinting your own designs on it, like the hobbit movies. And not for the better.
The problem I also have is a distinct lack of quality fantasy on T.V. So I am holding out on this for another episode or 3...
For me, this has a lot of red flags up already (after 3 episodes and a half).
Love triangle, clumsy/forced emotional scenes. The acting is borderline. This is also fairly heavy on the teen romance as well.
I don't remember much about the books at all, but this kind of reminds me of taking a great tale then imprinting your own designs on it, like the hobbit movies. And not for the better.
The problem I also have is a distinct lack of quality fantasy on T.V. So I am holding out on this for another episode or 3...
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Drakain
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This is the truth. If you've read Elfstones and Wishsong, then you know where the 'love triangle' is headed.
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Eddings isn't HBO material tho. They pick up deconstructions of conventional tropes and turn them around to something grittier... Sopranos for the mafia story, The Wire for cop shows and GoT for fantasy.
Eddings' stuff would make sense on Amazon or Netflix maybe.
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Elenium is plenty dark, but the main characters are basically charmed and borderline invulnerable. Except Kurik =| It's a very tame type of fantasy overall, and the Shannara books are substantially "darker" with more death and chase scenes and what not built in, while the Sparhawk books always have the plodding towards victory feeling. Especially once Sparhawk gets Bhelliom hah.
There's not really any teenager type antics going on, and now that GoT has made sure that the adult version of fantasy needs to have tits/swearing, it would be difficult to market it without substantially changing the tone, I think. It's fantasy for the DnD/Tabletop wargamer. Doesn't mean I wouldn't watch the shit out of it!
There's not really any teenager type antics going on, and now that GoT has made sure that the adult version of fantasy needs to have tits/swearing, it would be difficult to market it without substantially changing the tone, I think. It's fantasy for the DnD/Tabletop wargamer. Doesn't mean I wouldn't watch the shit out of it!