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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8914809" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>Finally finished it.</p><p></p><p>So I think I would like this series a lot better if it wasn't a <em>Willow</em> sequel. I grew to like all the characters well enough eventually, and while I think it would still be a little tonally inconstant, I think oddball or mismatched jokes, musical cues, etc. wouldn't be as jarring if I was just comparing the show to itself rather than a movie from a third of a century ago it just doesn't really share that much dna with. As a fun little YA-oriented, D&D-esque fantasy romp it's like a B for me, probably a B+ by the end. Hope there's another season.</p><p></p><p>As a Willow continuation there are a variety of issues, but I think the one that really bothers me is that the movie, closing out the era of 80s fantasy movies, is actually kind of striking compared to most later fantasy in how earnestly, unabashedly, and unselfconsciously it embraces the clichés and tropes of traditional fantasy. This show, in contrast, is your typical postmodern, hyper-selfconscious, "we'll do the trope, but we're going to knowingly comment on it" sort of thing. As its own thing I'm fine with this. But as a companion to a movie that has very much the opposite vibe, it's jarring. Perhaps I'm putting too fine a point on that, but I think, whether my particular reasoning is correct or not, the point that the overall vibe feels entirely off from the movie stands. Thus as a Willow sequel it's about a D+ for me, and the + is only from appreciation that someone made a sequel to Willow at all, something I wish had got a sequel when I was a child.</p><p></p><p>Of course I probably wouldn't have gotten around to watching it if it weren't a <em>Willow</em> sequel series. And that's the reason we are stuck in this age of all nostalgic old franchises being dug up all the time, because the nostalgia gets extra eyes on screens, even if what they see on those screens is then in conflict with the nostalgia that made them watch in the first place.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8914809, member: 6988941"] Finally finished it. So I think I would like this series a lot better if it wasn't a [I]Willow[/I] sequel. I grew to like all the characters well enough eventually, and while I think it would still be a little tonally inconstant, I think oddball or mismatched jokes, musical cues, etc. wouldn't be as jarring if I was just comparing the show to itself rather than a movie from a third of a century ago it just doesn't really share that much dna with. As a fun little YA-oriented, D&D-esque fantasy romp it's like a B for me, probably a B+ by the end. Hope there's another season. As a Willow continuation there are a variety of issues, but I think the one that really bothers me is that the movie, closing out the era of 80s fantasy movies, is actually kind of striking compared to most later fantasy in how earnestly, unabashedly, and unselfconsciously it embraces the clichés and tropes of traditional fantasy. This show, in contrast, is your typical postmodern, hyper-selfconscious, "we'll do the trope, but we're going to knowingly comment on it" sort of thing. As its own thing I'm fine with this. But as a companion to a movie that has very much the opposite vibe, it's jarring. Perhaps I'm putting too fine a point on that, but I think, whether my particular reasoning is correct or not, the point that the overall vibe feels entirely off from the movie stands. Thus as a Willow sequel it's about a D+ for me, and the + is only from appreciation that someone made a sequel to Willow at all, something I wish had got a sequel when I was a child. Of course I probably wouldn't have gotten around to watching it if it weren't a [I]Willow[/I] sequel series. And that's the reason we are stuck in this age of all nostalgic old franchises being dug up all the time, because the nostalgia gets extra eyes on screens, even if what they see on those screens is then in conflict with the nostalgia that made them watch in the first place. [/QUOTE]
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