I just watched the first three episodes of Legend of the Seeker.

[melancholise]

The short version: NICE-LOOKING BUT DUMB.

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[honeydewdrops]

YESSS RICHARD IS AN IDIOT! I AGREE! he is so dumb seriously i just want to strangle him sometimes, it gets so annoying! kahlan is too good for him! but then again, their chemistry was kinda good in the later episodes too.

but the show gets much much better as it goes on, at least for me. and i do love it a lot.

[melancholise]

OH YAY I AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT IT GETS BETTER. I will probably stay up one night and marathon it...before school starts. I still have time! :D

I really do want to like it; it's just that the plot and the characters are so naive sometimes that I just want to facepalm. If Richard grows up a bit and becomes a bit less of a huge dick I guess I could ship Richard/Kahlan. Seriously, I'm just rooting for Kahlan right now because she is so kickass.

[honeydewdrops]

haha hopefully you will like it more :)

at first i HATED richard lol, i really wanted to like him because he's the main lead and all but i just couldn't because he's so retarded! i still dislike richard a lot but i do love richard/kahlan after some scenes. kahlan is amaaazing! and since you mentioned mord-sith, there's this new main character in s2 who is mord-sith and she is absolutely amazing!

[melancholise]

I eagerly await those scenes, then. Oh well if the plot turns out to be lame at least I'll have so much pretty scenery and people to look at.

Oooh ooh, Cara, right?

[honeydewdrops]

haha yeah the show is really pretty! the colours are gorgeous.

yes cara! she has a very complex character and i love that about her.

[melancholise]

Yay okay but I have to watch my way through all 22 episodes of season one first! >( *determined expression, starting now*

[ofhipsandhearts]

guys this is a timely reminder for me to start work on this show!!!!

[melancholise]

And I have to continue my work on Merlin! And Glee! And I actually haven't finished BSG, because I know the fourth season sucks and I don't want to ruin my love for it. Aaaaaahhh I always feel guilty when watching shows, because I feel like I shouldn't be spending the time doing that.

[ofhipsandhearts]

i need to finish up with merlin s2.somewhere along episode 4 of the second season i got tired of it and stopped letting it occupy my sundays/mondays.
merlin/colin.he plays the understated character so well,the casting was spot on,i cannot imagine anyone else taking on the role and doing quite as well as him.i have a problem with gwen's physical appearance though.i think it's not right.it just isn't.

[ofhipsandhearts]

i'm a huge fantasy fan as well..which is why at this age i'm still reading robin mckinley.
do i feel guilty?yes i do because i'm always watching these things at the most inopportune moments.but i do it anyway.and i do it very frequently.whatever.

[melancholise]

Yes, the understated character. Colin Morgan as Merlin reminds me a bit of Skandar Keynes as Edmund...same air of seriousness, concentration, understatedness.

i feel when I am watching that I should be doing something else. Like reading or writing or drawing, because watching is just so passive and I can't sit still for it. I want to write fanfiction but I never have the drive. My creative writing abilities can't seem to extend beyond a couple hundred words :(

[ofhipsandhearts]

i disagree,i don't feel that.but i like edmund/skandar all the same and i think he is a wonderful male specimen<

[melancholise]

A "wonderful male specimen"?? Hahah who uses that phrase?

I am bad at doing nothing though; it's sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing.

I tend to like martyr characters. Characters who sacrifice themselves, or go through great pain, for a greater cause. Not for fame or recognition or a sense of moral superiority, but for people they love or things they care about. I believe there is no purer act than suffering to bring about good.

And I like tragic villains. The bad guys who were once good, or could have been, but made a mistake or had mistakes made for them, and then they ended up on the wrong side. Villains who suffer as much from the suffering they cause as their victims.

Yeah so I like...characters who suffer. Apparently.

[ofhipsandhearts]

uh..me?
tragic villians.i might like them too.
you're really cynical now

[melancholise]

Am I? Hmm, I wonder what happened.

I don't know, I still consider myself something of an idealist. I believe there is good in everyone. Even villains. But I also believe suffering and pain is a part of life...you could say that I am drawn to the darker side of life. I like dark stories. Angst, violence (of all kinds), pain, heartache. But I like to see goodness triumph in the end...

[honeydewdrops]

YES! and catch up on merlin too! the finale was REALLY GOOD.