DoctorFinger
11-01-2008, 03:17 PM
While Georgia-Florida was in halftime, I flipped over to WGN to glance at 'Legend of the Seeker', and it's exactly what I expected.
For those out of the loop, LotS is based on Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series of fantasy novels. The first book in the series was, in my opinion, one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read. The next two were good, but the 8 (8!) after that sucked donkey balls. But even when the books stunk, the two main characters - Richard & Kahlan - were usually pretty engaging, especially when they were together.
But I digress. The little I've seen of the series is everything you'd expect from a Raimi-Tapert production. Very attractive main characters, beautiful scenery, low rent effects and acting that rarely progresses past wooden. But you don't watch a show like that for the acting, do you? The woman they got to play Kahlan - Bridget Regan - is gorgeous and spends pretty much the whole in a clingy dress. The story takes some of the core elements of the first book, but the whole thing is a bit sanitized. One of the things that made the first book so good was it's adult sensibility. At the time it was unique among the Jordans and Brooks of the world, although George Martin and other have since done it a lot better. Later books in the series confused 'adult and mature' with 'ultraviolent and sensationalistic', so in that case it may improve the material. The bit of the show I've seen so far isn't as awful as I'd feared, but it's not enough to even earn a spot on my DVR at the moment.
For those out of the loop, LotS is based on Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series of fantasy novels. The first book in the series was, in my opinion, one of the best fantasy novels I've ever read. The next two were good, but the 8 (8!) after that sucked donkey balls. But even when the books stunk, the two main characters - Richard & Kahlan - were usually pretty engaging, especially when they were together.
But I digress. The little I've seen of the series is everything you'd expect from a Raimi-Tapert production. Very attractive main characters, beautiful scenery, low rent effects and acting that rarely progresses past wooden. But you don't watch a show like that for the acting, do you? The woman they got to play Kahlan - Bridget Regan - is gorgeous and spends pretty much the whole in a clingy dress. The story takes some of the core elements of the first book, but the whole thing is a bit sanitized. One of the things that made the first book so good was it's adult sensibility. At the time it was unique among the Jordans and Brooks of the world, although George Martin and other have since done it a lot better. Later books in the series confused 'adult and mature' with 'ultraviolent and sensationalistic', so in that case it may improve the material. The bit of the show I've seen so far isn't as awful as I'd feared, but it's not enough to even earn a spot on my DVR at the moment.