"Legend of the Seeker" - season two

Started by Rico, September 06, 2009, 06:04:28 PM

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Rico

Another great music video.  Watch this and I bet you will want to see this series (if you haven't already).

Legend of the Seeker. Sleeping Sun. Richard & Kahlan.

Rico

Still missing this series bad.  Hope the new fantasy shows coming in the next few months can help.  But in the meantime....

Official Legend of the Seeker music video

Ktrek

I thought the show was OK but it just didn't have enough plot variation to keep my interest through the entire run. As far as fantasy series go I liked Xena far more.

Kevin
"Oh...Well, Who am I to argue with me?" Dr. Bashir - Visionary - Deep Space Nine

Rico

Quote from: Ktrek on January 13, 2011, 08:35:24 PM
I thought the show was OK but it just didn't have enough plot variation to keep my interest through the entire run. As far as fantasy series go I liked Xena far more.

Kevin

Well, I certainly enjoyed it and found the plots quite interesting through the two seasons it aired.  Much less campy than Xena (which I also watched and enjoyed).  This series was much more of an adventure plus romance between Richard and Kahlan which was done very well - at least in my view.

Ktrek

Quote from: Rico on January 14, 2011, 05:14:55 AM

Well, I certainly enjoyed it and found the plots quite interesting through the two seasons it aired.  Much less campy than Xena (which I also watched and enjoyed).  This series was much more of an adventure plus romance between Richard and Kahlan which was done very well - at least in my view.

You're right about Xena being campy, much in the same way as Wonder Woman, but that to me is part of it's charm. Some of the sfx by today's standards don't hold up as well but overall the series was/is enjoyable.

With LOTS it just seemed to me that all they did was wander around. Generally the plots had very little variation and the love relationship was almost a little too dramatic and soapy for my taste. I do admit that the production quality was quite good and the locations were beautiful to look at. I just kept waiting for the series to build up to something important and it never really did. Maybe I just prefer sci-fi over fantasy because I also have trouble enjoying the fantasy quest books (with the exception of Lord of the Rings). I'm trying to work my way through a George RR Martin series (A Song of Fire and Ice) right now and I have to force myself to keep on. I'm hoping it gets better too. Glad you enjoyed the series Rico but it just wasn't for me.

Kevin
"Oh...Well, Who am I to argue with me?" Dr. Bashir - Visionary - Deep Space Nine

Rico

I'm not sure how many episodes you watched Kevin, but A LOT happened on this series in the two seasons it was on.  I'm a bit of a romantic so this series appealed to me probably more because of that aspect.  I'm also probably a bigger fantasy fan too.  I love my Sci-Fi but there's also nothing like a good fantasy of good vs. evil, some great swordplay and beautiful locations.  Probably one of the reason I took up fencing in college.  Anyway, glad you at least gave it a look.

Rico

Yes - still miss this series a lot.  Need to read the next book in the series now.  Nice video below.

Richard & Kahlan ‖ Only One

Duffster

I started watching this series, and was excited because I have read most of the books and loved them. Unfortunately I had to quite after a few episodes because I really felt they broke too much from the books. I am normally pretty forgiving about these things, but some of the stuff they changed for the tv series was just silly in my opinion. The entire Zed - Richard backstory... why change that?

Now my son loved the series and had never read the books. He read the first book afterward, and said that he still loved the show, but he may not have if he had read the books first.

I may try it again since they are on Netflix
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Rico

Glad you gave it a go Duffster.  I loved the series - obviously.  And now after reading the first book I know a bit about some of the changes.  I actually don't feel they are that bad.  I think the essence of the heart of the books (the love between Richard the Seeker and Kahlan the Confessor) is still very much there.  If you can overlook a few of the changes, I think you might enjoy it.  Plus the series gets deeper and more interesting as the season goes on and into season two.  Anyway, hope you give it another go sometime.

X

I've read all the books and seen the entire series. I think that for you to enjoy the series, you have to divorce yourself from thinking it's in any way connected to the books. The only thing that's the same is a few names. Instead of trying to figure out why they changed this or that or destroyed something that would have been important in the books, I just took it as a show with characters with the same names as people in the books.

If you go into without expecting it to be anything like the books, it will play better.

Duffster

I see what your saying X and will try it again. After hearing  positives from a lot of people I will give it another shot. I think I was just kinda shocked and jarred when I first started watching it.

I do wish I knew their reasoning for changing it though.  Look at Game of Thrones. Granted a bigger budget can help, but I see very little if any difference between the book and the show.

Anyway, it's on my summer watching list.
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KingIsaacLinksr

This is a series still on my Netflix queue, if only Buffy and Angel weren't so long I'd be watching this one as well.  :)

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Rico

Fun little fan made trailer for what they hoped would be covered in season three.

Legend of the seeker// Trailer season 3 Fan made

Feathers

I've just come to the end of this series (saw the last two last night) and on the whole I really enjoyed it (marred only by the fact that SyFy didn't broadcast episode 20 which seems to have contained most of the key parts of this season).

There are a few story elements across the two seasons that I could, perhaps, take some issue with but these would be minor niggles on what has been a fun ride.

On the issue of the end of season 2 specifically [spoiler] I like the way that what was effectively meddling in time wasn't able to be used to be set things to 'exactly as they were' which has been done in so many shows. They did get dangerously close to this at one point but the story shied away from it which I think was a good move.

The fact that Zedd seemed satisfied with the way the world ended without more pining for the old world (as we'd seen earlier) also worked well.

I do think, however, that going forward this sort of spell would have been a dangerous reset device. We all know the facility exists in this world now so why not try and use it for every magical problem? (other than the unpredicatable results of course),[/spoiler]

I haven't read the books so I've no idea where this may have gone in the future but I think I would have liked to have seen what the TV company would have done with it.

Thanks for the podcast recommendation Rico.

I know it's unnusual here but I don't have a podcast of my own.