Legend of the Seeker #15:Conversion/Season 1/2009

[Orius]

I was just thinking about it from a realistic point of view. Have you ever read "How to be an Evil Overlord"? I think that's the name of it.

I believe it's Peter's Evil Overlord List.

Even better, TV Tropes has the whole damn list hyperlinked to all the appropriate tropes here:

Evil Overlord List - Television Tropes & Idioms

I think I just killed a few hours for several people here. Heh heh, my revenge for all the times they posted links to TV Tropes, and I wasted 3-4 hours in my weakness.

If Rahl wants to succeed he should really read this.

I am not saying the show would be better if he did all these things, but once you've read this list you really can't look at the stupid mistakes "evil overlords" make in the same way.

I think he's read part of it, sometimes he's really not all that dumb.

But my point was that sometimes you can't have the BBEG do that in a story because it kills the moment, or because there are things outside the story that require it. So I am able suspend my disbelief in the name of drama, unless the writer drops some Idiot Balls or something.

 

[Wycen]

I'm looking forward to next week, the chick in red leather makes an appearance.

I also thought about the evil overlords list while watching this episode.

I don't actually care about when 'Zed the magic widget' isn't used in an episode, but for those who care, it would appear Zed's appearance in this episode manifested as the blood rage.

 

[Shade]

I may be wrong, but isn't "The Seeker" prophesized to kill Rahl, not Richard specifically? By keeping Richard alive, and preferably converted to his side, Rahl needn't fear another Seeker being born and slaying him. To me, that seems like a point in the "How to Keep an Evil Overlord Alive" column.

What did bother me is Kahlan's whole "our relationship is utterly hopeless" speech just minutes after realizing that people can brew potions to make just the opposite happen.