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wormil posted:I can see the thread will be a shitfest which is a shame. For an MTV show based on Shannara, this blew away my expectations. Yeah, given that I came into this show knowing nothing other than "MTV presents high fantasy" and while I'd totally agree the show's got problems, I actually thought it was unironically good or at least a lot better than I was expecting going in. That said I've only seen episodes 1 and 2 so far so if 3 and 4 drop in quality I haven't seen it yet. Also Manu absolutely stole every scene he was in.
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In a weird way I kinda like it. Yeah a good portion of it is probably laziness but it's still kinda cool to see a fantasy setting with a lot of normal clothes seeping in, like the beanies and the t-shirts the elves wore in the "run through the woods blind" test. I don't know if it's unique but it's at least something more than just a generic fantasy aesthetic. Also; I know this is a fantasy setting so wars between fantasy races are just kinda a thing but every time the elf king guy talked about the War of the Races it sounds like he's reminiscing on that time he ethnically cleansed the elf kingdom of whatever minorities they had  .
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WarLocke posted:Amberle picking up some D&D dice (looked like a couple d10s and a d20 to me) because they reminded her of Wil's elfstones was hilarious. Honestly I'm kinda hoping it turns out the elfstones are just radioactive D&D dice that got melted a bit, and the finale is Amberle tossing her dice into some radioactive waste so she can have her own elf stones.
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Josh Lyman posted:Could it be her dad? We didn't see him die on camera. And last we saw him, he was covering Our Heroes as they fled from the Star Trek watching party after trolls showed up to wipe them out. It's her dad for sure. There is no way this gets a season 2.
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Choadmaster posted:Executive producer is claiming it exceeded MTV's expectations and he has high hopes for another season. Either there are a shitload of us hatewatching or we've all underestimated the ability of MTV's core demographic to swallow lovely writing.  huh. The article's from 2/19, but I can't imagine the show would have had such a massive dropoff in the last two weeks that it would go from exceeding expectations to at risk of cancellation.I think if season 2 either changes leads or sends Austin Butler and Ivana Baquero (and Poppy Drayton if they bring back Amberle) to acting boot camp, the show could be unironically decent. There's a lot of other bad actors but any sort of praise I want to give the show for a cool high fantasy/post apocalypse aesthetic or Mannu Bennett being amazing or scenes like the Spock booing is drowned out by "3 of the 4 leads can barely read their lines".
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