To my untrained eye, the special effects are painful. TV SHOW REVIEW | Emerald City (2017) – NBC’s Urban (Romantic!) Fantasy Remakes ‘Oz’ Sadly, the production does not keep pace with the story. Judging this by its pilot alone, the story is really quite fascinating if you don’t mind forms of magic and fantasy holding up plots. Someone saving a child after an edict orders every firstborn son murdered to protect Darken Rahl (played by Craig Parker) and his legacy. In fact, it’s almost Biblical in its history. The 90-minute pilot (or that’s how it’s showing now) sets a distinct good vs. Without knowing anything about the show, the opening scenes convinced me to give this one a fair shot and with exception to rudimentary flaws, it’s a fun ride. Right off the bat, it sets pulses racing though we know nothing about what’s happening (or we’re clueless if we’ve not read the book), it matters not. The women’s costumes, the angles, everything is wonderful.
The scene and staging of the first 10 minutes are really, exquisite. I’m just going to say this about Legend of the Seeker: it begins brilliantly. But, their arrival reveals more than one secret… Her search for the Seeker leads her to Zed’s door, the seeker’s trainer. When he gets to the Wizard’s, it’s to see a familiar face – Kahlan is with Zed. To protect him, Richard’s father sends a confused Richard off to the Wizard (Bruce Spence), the man who will explain everything. Meanwhile, Richard’s brother confronts evil in the form of Darken Rahl’s soldiers’. The men still seeking Kahlan – whom they call a witch, under the orders of their master, a man seeking to destroy the this Seeker no one can find.
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