Posted impressions in the other thread, but so far up to episode 4 the writing has been pretty bad. Hope it improves.
Binged the whole thing. It was not very good, but still entertaining.
The story is like SUPER generic. It's like the writer just scrolled through tvtropes' most popular and stopped his effort there.
There's a plucky young girl in the main group (can't break that 2 guys/1 girl team cliche, you know) that keeps secrets from the rest of the group. It's got a pointless animal that's made to sell toys, a young bumbling boy that longs for something greater, a Jafar-type villain, a morally ambiguous group of teens that will most definitely join the main party down the road. Dragons, elves (but with horns!), giant wolves and giant spiders, and so on. It's full of half-arsed attempts at political intrigue, heartfelt moments, and drama. t's not particularly well-told and mostly lacks substance, emotion, and depth. The pacing is all over the place. The characters are charming enough despite the tropes, though.
The worldbuilding is almost nonexistent. The whole show feels claustrophobic. We hear about the war, the border troubles, etc, but we never get to see any of this. In fact, we never get to see nothing. For the first few episodes I even doubted that the main castle's got a town around it. The show's very pretty in parts, but they just don't show you much aside from the castle, some woods, and some pretty skies. Oh, there's one village, a mountain, and a river. Wow. Can't wait to visit that amazing place, you guys! All the small details that's been put in the worldbuilding are not especially interesting or well thought-out too. Tangled: Series has more going for it than TGP in that aspect.
The magic is meh. Elements and some alchemy. Couldn't they come up with at least something new? Avatar had the whole martial art thing behind it. Some spells are pretty neat, but that's all.
The art is decent for the most part. The animation is not terrible and grows on you eventually, but the constant shift in framerate is jarring. Also, most side-chars look really bad and some of the camera angles are straight amateurish. The show can look jaw-droppingly great in one scene and laughably bad in another. They should've left it baking for another few months. Would've been leagues better as a 2d show. The soundtrack is forgettable.
It's nowhere near the quality of The Last Airbender. Not even Korra's. It's still entertaining enough due to the likeable-enough cast of characters and their banter, good character designs, entertaining action scenes, and some neat jokes here and there. It's got tropes and cliche up the wazoo, but it does them well enough to not be boring. I'll watch the second season, but after Korra and this one, it's entirely too clear that TLA was a fluke and the guys just lack talent and skill to make that good a show once again. Pity.
Oh, I thought the guys who made Korra were involved in this one. My bad.Okay I agree with you but your comparison to Korra is weird. No one involved with Korra work on this show. It's a completely different group of people who didn't go on to Korra and then Voltron.
Without it, I'd have stopped watching after the second episode.
Oh, I thought the guys who made Korra were involved in this one. My bad.
It's the cringiest aspect of the show both in placement and execution. It does help with the characterization of some of the characters but its used too often especially with Callum.Without it, it'd have stopped watching after the second episode.
Callum would be so damn boring as a protagonist if he wasn't hilarious and silly. This show actually balances emotion with comedy really really well. TheIt's the cringiest aspect of the show both in placement and execution. It does help with the characterization of some of the characters but its used too often especially with Callum.
Yep, I praise them for having the diverse cast, really hate that all white fantasy excuse as well.Speaking of, this show is so damn diverse, and I don't wanna hear some nerd argue that fantasy should be restricted to an all white cast for "immersion" ever again.
Finished it and enjoyed it got quite a chuckle here and there. The characters are very likeable, though not feeling Viren yet and really don't like the frog pet(except when he does the Netflix start noise). The art and character design are great, and the animation can look great at times. Looking forward to the second season.
Yep, I praise them for having the diverse cast, really hate that all white fantasy excuse as well.
No word yet, though there's still a video game tie-in in the works.Have we heard any word on when/if a second season is going to happen?
Have we heard any word on when/if a second season is going to happen?
Thoroughly enjoyed the binge watch this morning.
Since we're assuming that the seasons correlate to the sources of magic, do you have six, or maybe seven, seasons planned out? Or ideas for that?
Aaron Ehasz: Here's the deal. We love this world. We have a lot of ideas for stories we can tell in this world. That said, we're really proud of the story that we are telling with Netflix right now, and we'll feel really happy if the audience receives that, and that's that. But we hope that an audience finds this, and we're able to tell much more of this story. And I know that's not the 100% detailed version of the answer, but you can kind of read between the lines. We'd love to tell a very epic story here.
So I binged through all of Book 1
This really is the successor to Avatar: The Last Airbender. From the intro setting up the world, the forces of magic at work, the deity like being that everyone is after, the chase across the world, a journey of a group of misfits trying to save it, even the humour is totally Avatar.
All of the characters are super likeable and have interesting arcs being set up. Callum feels like season 3 Sokka, someone who feels useless and not knowing his place in the world, but also the plan guy. Rayla feels like Zuko, trying to find redemption, but she's Katara-ish never letting people get away with things and always butting heads with Callum. Ezran feels like a younger Aang, naive but full of wisdom. He works really well even as a kid character. I think my favourite characters are the sibling pair, Soren and Claudia. They fill a similar role as Zuko and Azula, but they are also nothing like them. Theyre hilarious.
I love the idea that Rayla serves as the the two Princes bodyguard. She's really great, and as the show goes on, she has to suffer through a really serious handicap while still playing protector.
This show feels like a mix of Lord of the Rings and other RPGs, theres like even a nod to RPG classes in one of the episodes.
I really love this show. Some of the fight choreography is really impressive. People should not let the few clips and trailers turn them off with the animation. It looks really good while youre watching. Or maybe i just got used to it.
Anyway, watch this damn show.
Keep watching. >:|Oof
Watched the first episode and yep, the animation is incredibly distracting. Not sure what to do now.