Shannara Chronicles I loved the trilogy when I was in my early teens so watched this series. What a mess. Really the whole tying it explicitly San fran and pacific northwest was a huge mistake. I was amazed that something with so much money behind it could make so many mistakes. You mean to tell me that in all the pretty young things that want to be on TV THAT was the best actress they could find? Everyone else did pretty well. The series seemed to do better when it stuck to book with the most cringe-worthy stuff happening when they decided to deviate, or add in characters that weren't in the books or went into the "Ooohh, a ruined oakland highschool!" It also tried too hard to be a GoT type. I really wanted this to be good. I will say I was unsure about hot Allanon, but surprisingly it worked, one of the few things that did.
As a palate cleanser I started watching Man in High Castle I'm on episode 5 and so far this show is damned excellent!
I tried to watch
Shannara when it first aired. I didn't make it through the first episode. The younger me would have been aghast, after having been satisfied with
Hawk the Slayer and
Beastmaster,
Shannara would have seemed like high art. Instead, it seemed like characters from The OC had visited renfaire and Jon Rhys-Davies needed rent money.
As for the second, oddly
Man in the High Castle is an Amazon Original, but it isn't carried on Japan's version of their streaming service. I'm guessing Amazon doesn't want to risk displaying something as controversial as a WWII-triumphant Japan and re-association with the Axis Powers.
Agreed. I watched the first ep of S2 the night it premiered and I'm still not done with the season yet. Granted a major part is me being busy AND lazy, but even still I don't feel like making the time to finish it. It's not bad, in many ways it's pretty good. The cinematography is better than S1. But narrative wise it just doesn't grab me as much as S1 on any level. And I'm kinda tired of the main cliffhanger (Tyrell and what happened) being dragged out.
Also I just saw the ep with what I assume people felt was a huge twist
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Where you learn Elliot has been hallucinating...well, just about everything and is actually in jail.
Just wasn't sold on this, especially given S1's twist.
So it turns out I was exactly one episode behind you. Oops. The transition scene where that happens was still magic, even though I knew it was coming.
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This obviously means the whole "ritual" and routine which Elliot said he was using to eradicate his father from his life, instead it was just the routine of prison life. Even Craig Robinson's internet dark site which Elliot fixed, that's all structured within the prison as well, so I'm guessing Craig Robinson is a guard. Was a guard.
