Since I can't see the show here - can you toss some vid recs my way? I'll eventually get around to it, I hope!, but I'm not too bothered by spoilers, and I read the books back in the day and so the general story elements are familiar anyway.
The one episode I caught bits of actually featured, I believe Darken Rahl torturing Cara (the blond?) with the dildo of doom - and I was all, OMG !!!! They made TeeVEE show out of that sick fuck's books! AIIIIEEEE!!!
(I did note, in passing, that it was all very pretty.....)
Do you *ahem* obtain *ahem* shows? Or do you prefer to stick with legal viewing? I can help you out with the former if you are interested.
I read the books after seeing the first season, and it is so totally different. They take some of the plot elements, but they completely change them up. Plus, they pretty much ignore/gloss over a lot of the more problematic elements. I still don't know how someone read the book series and thought, "Hmmmm.... this sounds like it would make a perfect Disney television show." Hence, I think, the crack involved in the actual show.
And it is very, very pretty. Not only the characters, but the costuming, and the cinematography, and the scenery, and everything. Keeping the pretty seems to be the number one rule on the show.
I'm not against 'obtaining' shows, but when I've tried (I wanted to watch BSG this way last year) it always seemed to require downloading some new freeware package that I could never seem to get to work properly (I run a Mac and the most popular sites/freeware didn't have mac versions in the first place) and then took forever on my not super super fast internet and half of what I downloaded wouldn't play anyway.
So, I threw up my hands and figured I could wait until I was back in the US and had itunes/netflix at my disposal again.
search Legend of the Seeker on surfthechannel.com - no downloading, all megavideo streams that worked well enough for me when I was away on a shitty connection!
Many of the networks block their stuff for users, like me, who aren't in the US/Canada. EVen stuff you can see on things like Hulu in the states, don't play here. (Here being Venezuela still....)
megavideo plays everywhere - and I stumbled upon the BEST THING to ever happen to the internets: HotSpot Shield connects you to an American-based IP and lets you watch Hulu outside of the States. yay!
What do you want to know about them? Would you like me to PM you with details? I have a PC, but I don't see why they shouldn't work just as well on Macs.
Well - one issue I discovered is that the most highly recommended freeware for using torrents don't have Mac versions. Or, at least, they didn't last year. So - it isn't that torrents in general don't work, I've read that they do!, but that I couldn't figure them out well enough to make them work for me, esp. in the combo of Mac + slowish connection.
Can you access Youtube? Because the vid that labellamafia494 recommended: Lightning Field is a good one! And from there you can explore all over Youtube (some are good; some are mediocre, but it's hard to do a *bad* vid with this source material).
As meredith44 pointed out, the show is only loosely related to the books. I haven't actually read any of them (and don't plan to), but I hear that fans of the books complain about how different they are
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Yes - youtube is no problem, and I'm paying the 'big bucks' for the fastest connection I can get, which was finally installed - I shit you not - one whole week before I left the country in February, still not sure I was coming back. I'm told that I only had to wait three months was *amazing* and I should thank my lucky stars.....!
Oh - and Swatkat sent me some funny links explaining the differences (thank god!) between the books and the shows.
I am NOT a fan of the books in any way. I just read them, when I was a tweener mainlining on everything in the public library's scifi fantasy section. And there was a - ahem - vividness to the dildo of power raping = magical power stuff that can't ever be completely scrubbed from ones brain, though after that the books got, as I recall, progressively duller and Richard became more Randian. NOt that I realized that's what was happening as I somehow managed to avoid Rand until I was in college and therefore much too old and already too feminist to be anything other than bored and then amazed that *this* was the source of 'randian' as an adjective!
In the show, Richard is like a big, excitable puppy dog, who's always dashing off on sidetrips to rescue random innocents just when the group urgently needs to find a special maguffin that will prevent the DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. He's kind of adorable, actually. But not very bright. LOL.
The one episode I caught bits of actually featured, I believe Darken Rahl torturing Cara (the blond?) with the dildo of doom - and I was all, OMG !!!! They made TeeVEE show out of that sick fuck's books! AIIIIEEEE!!!
(I did note, in passing, that it was all very pretty.....)
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I read the books after seeing the first season, and it is so totally different. They take some of the plot elements, but they completely change them up. Plus, they pretty much ignore/gloss over a lot of the more problematic elements. I still don't know how someone read the book series and thought, "Hmmmm.... this sounds like it would make a perfect Disney television show." Hence, I think, the crack involved in the actual show.
And it is very, very pretty. Not only the characters, but the costuming, and the cinematography, and the scenery, and everything. Keeping the pretty seems to be the number one rule on the show.
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So, I threw up my hands and figured I could wait until I was back in the US and had itunes/netflix at my disposal again.
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Many of the networks block their stuff for users, like me, who aren't in the US/Canada. EVen stuff you can see on things like Hulu in the states, don't play here. (Here being Venezuela still....)
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As meredith44 pointed out, the show is only loosely related to the books. I haven't actually read any of them (and don't plan to), but I hear that fans of the books complain about how different they are ( ... )
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I am NOT a fan of the books in any way. I just read them, when I was a tweener mainlining on everything in the public library's scifi fantasy section. And there was a - ahem - vividness to the dildo of power raping = magical power stuff that can't ever be completely scrubbed from ones brain, though after that the books got, as I recall, progressively duller and Richard became more Randian. NOt that I realized that's what was happening as I somehow managed to avoid Rand until I was in college and therefore much too old and already too feminist to be anything other than bored and then amazed that *this* was the source of 'randian' as an adjective!
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In the show, Richard is like a big, excitable puppy dog, who's always dashing off on sidetrips to rescue random innocents just when the group urgently needs to find a special maguffin that will prevent the DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT. He's kind of adorable, actually. But not very bright. LOL.
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