What a great and promising recipe?
A young female "Robin Hood", a pinch of "Princess Bride", some slices of "Sleepy Hollow" and a dash of "Pirates of the Caribbean" stewed in a slightly slap-stickly british pot of swashbuckling fantastical adventure?
Great costumes, good action and ok-ish special effects?
That should be enough shouldn't it?
Sadly they added large amounts of bitter "completely illogical timelines and scripts"!
And a revolting amount of "completely unnecessary idiotic and superficial characters & dialogues"
Louisa Harland is well chosen and is doing really well, but she can't save another messed-up Disney-script - like so many over the last 2 decades! Instead of making a kid/family-series/movies they (Disney) seemingly are unable to understand how this can be done anymore, so they mix over simplistic characters and "realities" (from children scripts) with (too)fast paced from teen-content and then some rather adult contents and then they wonder why it tastes like boiled shoe-soles...
So this could have been REALLY great...! But its not! Only a 1-2/5★ from me...
Is it for you? Yes, if you don't mind
- the rather oversimplified script
- the weak humor
- and many misfitted children's -content
==> then enjoy a sparkling special adventure with guns, sabers and lots of MAGIC!
Is it for Kids?
Hmm, no not really, its rather a 12+ series...
... sadly i really enjoyed E01, but from E02 it went slowly and constantly downhill. Only the Magics & Action scenes were nice until the end, most of the rest i had to skip through... bummer!
... maybe S02 gets better?