Legend of the Seeker

I have to agree it is cashing in on a genre. They got me to watch once playing on my love of costumes and swordfights, but after one I am done with it.

Its too bad I would make room for a fantasy/medieval series if it had some content.

Legend of the stinker ah seeker... man I love love love the idea...I hate hate hate what they did

Glad to see you guys agree -- thought I might be bruising some Early-Modern-Age feelings here. I have two problems with the show:

1) The Characters
One of my favorite screenwriting books likes to remind us that while it's hard to create truly unique stories, it's much easier, in fact it's necessary, to try to create truly unique characters. Think about shows like Dexter, The Shield, The Sopranos, the UK Life on Mars, and Battlestar Galactica. In the case of the last example, why was it that the female characters, the President, Number 6, Boomer/Athena, Starbuck, etc. ended up taking over the show? They were the unique ones of the bunch. LotS just doesn't have unique enough characters. They are flat and bland.

2) Simplistic Plots
The days of an A story carrying an episode are long since over. The days of an A and a B story carrying an episode are over as well. These days you have to have A, B, C, and D, or more, stories to keep an audience involved. I could go on and on about this but I will leave it at that for now.

Anyone see it differently?

I think you hit on something very important big D

Simple vs Simplistic

although I have a big heard for projects like this. I think you have to have attempts like this to move the industry down the road to what I would like to call the big project. I cannot overlook the Simple vs Simplistic battle going on here.

There are moments when things seem to work but there seems to be no context to limit anyone powers. The magic/mystic people will just be a plot device to move the story or solve the problem when needed.

Worse to me is that there is no sense of a great struggle the main character is on. No map of the world and we are here and have to get there. No building up friends and getting ready for the war against Evil.

Ok I have said enough.