The first season finale was yesterday, but my wife and I just got to watch it tongiht.
I have to say, this show started pretty good and has gradually moved over to a very awesome and cool show. I highly recommend it for summer TV watching if you didn’t catch it throughout the Fall. It’s syndicated, by the way.
Anyway, I thought the whole season was pretty good and the season finale was excellent…though I was surprised just how far they went.
I have never read the books by the way, but my Dad has read the first one and said he is able to enjoy the show despite its differences.
I love the show (I posted about it on the “Things You Didn’t Think You’d Like But Do Anyway” thread) but I am still catching up with it on Hulu. I still have ten episodes or so to go, so I’ll have to stay out of this thread for a while to avoid spoilers. I was happy to note that a second season has been ordered.
I’ve never read the books, but I’ve heard the quality really takes a dive after the first few, so I’ve been hesistant to pick them up.
Having stopped about a third of the way into Wizard’s first rule, I nearly had a Nerdgasm, when I saw the first preview for this show. I was like “That’s Sword of Truth!!! Holy crap!!!”
That being said, I never got around to watching it. [Is it on Hulu?]
Also, I heard that the pilot was GREAT, but that the rest of the shows were not as faithful to the series. What response do you have to that ?
ETA: Then again, If I get past the second chapter in a book, that is … pretty darn far for me.
I don’t know, I think my ADD and the waning years of the Gen X ers [82] look at the internet, and can’t offer a better alternative.
Well, Meeko, there are a few lame episodes, early, but it gets a lot better as it goes. I rarely have seen a show that has moved so quickly from “good” to great.
Meeko, the whole show is on Hulu, so watch it when you get a chance.
I don’t care that the show is unfaithful to the book. Separate entities and all.
The closed captioning is horribly mangled. I’ve seen about 3 episodes, and they were all the same way. I can’t watch movies or television without captioning due to hearing issues, so I’m pissed that they actually decided to caption the series, then butchered it to the point where they might as well not even have bothered. Seriously, only about 1 word in 10 is recognizable.
It’s a shame, from what I can tell it does seem like a well written series and I think if it was properly captioned I might have enjoyed it.
That* is *a shame and I’m sorry to hear they did such a poor job. You should try to get them from Netflix when they come out on DVD. I would hope the DVD subtitles are better than the TV ones.
This show is my guilty pleasure. I haven’t watched the last episode yet (it’s on the TiVo). I’m really going to miss it now that it’s gone - anyone know when the new season starts?
I haven’t read the books, so can’t compare, but the show is GREAT.
I read the first book this past winter, but haven’t seen the show yet. Now that you fine people have let me know it’s all on Hulu, I’ll go check them out.
The book was, strangely enough, about how y’all describe the show. It started off pretty mediocre. Standard fantasy stuff. But from about page 200-400, it became very interesting. There were enough twists to the standard fantasy memes to make them interesting again, and the politics and cultures he created seemed well thought out and , again, different enough from so much else that I was continually interested in what was happening.
Since today is a holiday, I have all day to nap and watch this show. Life is good!
No reason to feel like a guilty pleasure; the show is actually very good. I consider shows like Xena or Hercules or Lost World to be more like guilty pleasures, but Seeker genuinely rises about what any of those shows were trying to do.
Captioning on dvd’s is usually fairly accurate. Television shows vary greatly though. I’m not sure if it’s possible that an issue with the television is mucking things up (my tv’s about 12 years old), or it’s the fault of the cable company, or the station, or what the deal is. It’s definitely a frustrating experience, but I don’t know who to complain to. I’ve sent emails to television stations before and not had helpful responses. But yeah, when this comes out on dvd I’ll be all over it. I might buy the series, it seems pretty well done. The scenery and costumes are pretty cool too, realistic without being overdone. Same thing for the special effects, they get the job done without being over the top.
This thread reminded me that I’d meant to check out this show, so now I’m catching up on Hulu (after the fact, since apparently the finale already aired). I’m only a few episodes in, but I’m finding it quite entertaining.
I’ve read the entire series. I still think the first book was the best of the lot – you can stop there and not really miss anything else (especially since Goodkind gets preachier and preachier as the series progresses). It’s interesting, the ways in which the show differs from the books. I don’t think the show would have stood up as well if they’d done a faithful retelling of the book. There were a few scenes I was hoping they’d keep that I haven’t seen yet, so I’m a little disappointed on that front, but overall I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality.
Apocalypso, if you go to Hulu.com, you can watch all the episodes with accurate closed captioning. I just went and checked a few episodes, and they have every word of dialogue. (For what it’s worth, the captioning looks like movie captioning, not the normal TV closed captioning.)
I also liked the books (I’m in the middle of the last one), and am also catching up with the series on Hulu. I like the casting for Kahlan, but was disappointed with Richard. I think I’m on ep 19 right now, and the idiot hasn’t matured much. I know they aren’t staying faithful to the books, but without him coming into his own and figuring out magic, swordplay, making hard decisions with confidence, etc… it’s just too much like Xena (although Xena was deliberately comical). The only thing that really has me hooked right now is Bridget Regan. Bridget Regan in a Mord-sith costume, dressed up as a hooker, walking naked into a lake…
