Topic: Willow [Disney+]
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"The Next Great Adventure Has Arrived."
Willow is based on and serving as a sequel to an the 1988 fantasy adventure film of the same name.
20 years after vanquishing the wicked Queen Bavmorda, the sorcerer Willow Ufgood leads an unlikely group of heroes on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world.
Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn [dwarf] Sorcerer who leads a party.
Dove, a kitchen maid who is in love with Prince Airk and joins the quest to save him
Princess Kit, who sets in motion a quest to rescue her brother Airk.
Jade, a knight-in-training and Kit's person who joins in the quest.
Prince Graydon, a young scholar and betrothed of Princess Kit.
Boorman, a thief and swordsman who is offered freedom from prison if he joins the quest.
Prince Airk, Kit's twin brother who is kidnapped by dark forces on the rise.
Okay, I won't say that, from my point of view, this series doesn't already have major faults from the weirdly modern/anachronistic aspects, something the original film did not affect [is this Willow or Rosaline?!?] to the sparse magical elements which seemed to give this series more of a Shannara Chronicles vibe to it than the dark fantasy the original film was playing in. After all the movie [PG mind you] started off with the murder of both mother and midwife to the future Empress of Tir Asleen. Whereas this starts with flirt-fighting and making out... not that there's anything wrong with any of this, it just doesn't seem to fit into what my hopes were for this series.
Just to take a step back I would like to say that Willow was one of those movies from my childhood which I rewatched often, perhaps not always to my parents delight, but always to mine. I even read [though barely recall] those novels George Lucas had made as a sequel to the movie back in the 1990's (incidentally they seem to be no longer cannon). So I was hoping for something special from this series... yet I also felt as though Disney+ could never recapturer that lightening. After all they couldn't even recapture their own lightening with the rather disappointing recent performance of Disenchanted.
Still after a rather iffy first Ep the second [which was released in tandem] went down a little easier and as someone who has been waiting to spend some time playing in this world again, I find myself ready for more even if it's only on par with what we have already seen but I'm still hoping for it to get better.
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