The Seeker's Journal: Brennidon

[pristineungift]

I'm still really sick, so I'm not up to doing a live blog/recap like I usually do, but the challenge ends in a few hours, so here's just a few things I thought about while watching.

My rating of Brennidon: 3 out of 5

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[borg_princess]

"Ares, what are you doing here? This isn't even your show!" "He reminds me of Hercules."

*dies laughing* Omg, that is just so loltastic, I can't even. :D

Zedd's powers don't make sense because we see him do really big things sometimes, but other times he won't so much as conjure them dinner when game is scarce

THIS. I'm sure it annoyed my cousin when we watched, 'coz I was always ranting about how his powers varied from ep to ep and he never used them in situations where IT WOULD MAKE SENSE.

One in particular is in the last ep or two, where there's this big divide in the ground, and he's all 'let's walk all the way down and hope to find a place where we can cross over'- SURELY a wizard as powerful as him could levitate them over? Or create something they could walk over to get to the other side? We've seen him use these blasts of air that send people flying for several meters, that would've sufficed!

But plotwise, Richard had to be alone so he could be fooled by the Keeper, so Zedd's handicapped in order to allow that situation to unfold. *eyeroll* I hate that, such lazy writing, tbh.

Wrt to Richard's siblings...well, Michael was faced with Richard having apparently killed his father and the other dude's mom was arrested and facing execution, so I think the antagonism toward Richard is warranted. With Jennsen...it's been ages, so I can't quite recall how it went down, but he was trying to save their mom, right? So he was acting the hero and giving her some hope their mother would be all right, whereas in the other cases, the situation was hopeless or betraying Richard offered a greater possibility of a happy ending for the character than co-operating. Jennsen had more to gain by accepting Richard- also, she's a young civilian girl, whereas the other guys were either older or trained warriors, so they didn't need Richard as much as Jennsen did.

Not that I'm saying her affection for him was calculated based on his value or that it wasn't genuine, just that of course it makes sense for a girl in her position to be grateful to Richard and rely on him, whereas macho guys are gonna think they can handle it on their own, y'know?

If Richard came across a younger brother who was a nerd with zero sword-fighting skills and pretty much helpless to save whichever parent is in danger, I'm sure he'd get along a lot better with Richard than the other dudes.

[pristineungift]

Wrt to Richard's siblings...well, Michael was faced with Richard having apparently killed his father and the other dude's mom was arrested and facing execution, so I think the antagonism toward Richard is warranted.

At that point yes, but we see that he has problems with Richard even before that, in his interactions with George as well as with Richard prior to George's death. His attitude was YOU LOVE RICHARD BEST YOU AREN'T EVEN MY REAL BROTHER before we even got to any kind of actual event that could give rise to a justification for that resentment.

I tend to think angstbunny nailed it in her comment above.