I've, um, accidentally started sampling a few episodes of
Legend of the Seeker (call it a misplaced bout of
Xena nostalgia, or just desperation for some genre entertainment until the new episodes of
Doctor Who [!!!] start up).
And, okay, the show has its
crack charms, but what it really makes me long for is a splashy film version starring Lucy Liu as Kahlan, Cameron Diaz as Cara, and of course Drew Barrymore as Richard.
Come on, just try to tell me that wouldn't be awesome, I dare you!
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but it's on my list!!!
*cheers*
Plus, filmed in New Zealand, which should bring back some LotR nostalgia!
(I've been enjoying your recent writing meta, by the way, even as a non-writer.)
*cheers*
Thanks for the heads up about Hulu; my home internet is crap for video but sometimes i can watch a show on my lunch hour at work. *makes note*
glad you're enjoying the writing meta. plot is hard, barbie said....
Edited 2010-03-24 03:38 am (UTC)
I'm so glad you're edging closer to the dark side!
I had a bad stumble with my recent failure to get caught up in The Vampire Diaries, but with a few more episodes, I'll be a regular Darken Crypto. At least until I get distracted again by another MTV reality show....
aaaaah. You're right, that would be awesome, but there would still be dude's storyline, which is rather less so, to me....
Dude meaning Terry Goodkind, or the Richard character, or the generic hero's journey, or all of the above?
So far the episodes that I've seen keep talking about them being on a quest, guided by a magic compass that will lead them to a special stone, and then they either get distracted from the quest by a side-adventure or have enemies try to thwart them from completing their quest. Which apparently is very important. Somehow.
So, yeah, the storyline is presumably not the selling point here....
"Apparently" and "somehow" hold the book together, I think!
That's how the scripts are labeled, I'm positive.
Tell me, Denna: did I not promise you unimaginable pain if you were to fail me? And have you brought me the Seeker? Is he here? Oh, Denna.
(Hanging by her wrists in the torture chamber) Punish me, my lord!
...
No, seriously!
Also I understand that Cara didn't become a regular until S2. I'm not all about Cara, but I suspect the show would interest me less without her in the mix.
P.S. Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Edited 2010-03-24 04:55 pm (UTC)
And I'm still behind, but I think the finale of S1 explains Cara's situation? If you haven't seen it? As for the torture-happy sexybadness of Darken Rahl--yes, not so much a kink here, either; more like, I wish someone would make a vid about His Darken-ness to Devo's "Whip It." It's just that funny, in a not-quite-parodic, still-a-bit-true way.
In fact, one of the things that's so interesting to me about LotS in general is the way it finds that balance where you're (by which I mean "I'm") giggling madly at how over the top it all is, while another partition has the "Hm, that might actually be kind of intense, in a way" process going on.
Like, to take another example, the scene in that ep where Kahlan and Richard are locked up (it's complicated) and Kahlan's trying to seduce the manly guard, and it turns out the guard wants Richard instead, and Richard goes "Huh? Oh," and goes into his "I'm so sexy" bit. It's genuinely funny, not because he's acting the cliche homophobe stereotype or because we're supposed to think "Richard" and "mansex" are, like, a ridiculous idea that would never happen omg, though it glances at both of those things sort of knowingly.
Huh. I obviously have no idea how to describe what I think I'm seeing. It probably all depends on one's particular narrative sensitivities anyway: kinks, in a general way. The way LotS does it is new to me, is all.