For one thing, it's drenched in blood and death. With this second episode LEGEND OF THE SEEKER sets out its bid to be taken more seriously as a grown up fantasy series. Liberating the camp is one thing, but the sacred locket that is needed has been taken by a thief and the fate of the world now rests, literally, in his hands. To get to that, the Seeker has to find an Abbott, but the Abbott has been locked away in a Daharan death camp that is still operating. The secret to closing the rift between the real world and the Underworld lies with the Stone of Tears, an ancient relic of great power. Now that the set up is over, perhaps the show can get on with improving because it needs to prove that the highlights of last time around can be maintained a little more consistently. Certainly it's more impressive than the facial hair that Craig Horner is now sporting. There is the usual slow motion swordfighting and another dodgy CGI monster, but the view into the Underworld is quite impressive. Whew that's a lot of plot set up and there isn't the space or time for it, so everything is crowbarred in and no justice is done to any of the individual plot strands. On top of that there's the underworld monster to be dealt with and a prophecy that Richard will fail and a new Seeker must be names. Charisma Carpenter ( BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL) guest stars in a bit of stunt casting that doesn't really add very much to proceedings. Then there's the Mordsith, who get the ball rolling with some half-naked bathtime power struggles leading to Richard getting himself a new companion. No great surprise there, but it leads to all sorts of questions about Richard ebing the next Lord Rahl and facing a civil war on a scale much larger than the one here. First there's the news of Richard's connection with Darken Rahl.
This set up episode is jammed full of complications. What a difference a recommissioning makes.
Streamlined storytelling that didn't allow for a lot of complications. There was a bad guy with an army, a good guy with a couple of powerful friends and there were a lot of wrongs to be righted along the way. The first season of THE LEGEND OF THE SEEKER was endearingly simple. Richard Cypher, the Seeker, wishtes to kill it, but first he has to deal with the news that he is the brother of Darken Rahl and that the Mordsith have taken a town's female children prisoner.
Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurnerĭarken Rahl is dead, defeated by the Seeker, but the events that saw to his downfall have opened a direct rift between the Seeker's world and the Underworld, through which an unkillable creature has passed. Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
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