It is as if Raimi and his team have contracted RSI of the eyelid and can undertake no more winking for the duration. From executive producers Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert comes this live-action series based on Terry Goodkinds bestselling epic fantasy series The Sword of. This is not postmodern, camp rompery like Xena or Hercules. ![]() The only thing missing is a sense of humour. The Seeker, the Confessor, the Wizard and a stout-hearted friend called Chase have embarked on an epic quest, so you can just let the details (lovingly rendered in shimmering CGI) wash over you and still get the gist. To the untrained eye, he is a twentysomething moron who happens to be able to work a leather jerkin better than most but to Kahlan and the local wizard, Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander (sword-and-sorcerers like their apostrophes sprinkled with a liberal hand), he is the The First True Seeker In a Thousand Years! And as such, destined to smite the evil emperor of D'Hara (told you), Darken Rahl, who writes his imperial memos in the blood of his faithful servants and is bent on enslaving them all.Īre you still with me? No? It doesn't matter. She is Kahlan Amnell, a Confessor ("an ancient order of women sworn to find the truth!"), charged with finding the mysterious Seeker and giving him the Book of Counted Shadows ("written in a time before remembering!") and carrying a night wisp – think Tinkerbell in a crystal amulet – that enables her to cross mystical boundaries and find Richard Cypher.
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