LEGEND OF THE SEEKER #5:Wizard/Season 2/2009

[Truth Seeker]

Wizard

Zedd falls victim to a mysterious spell that strips him of his memories and his old age, causing him to believe that he must replace Richard with a new Seeker.
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[Orius]

This episode is why I play the wizard. Yup, Zedd in this one is pretty much like every single wizard I end up playing.

And I like how Kara dealt with Shota.

 

[Felon]

This episode is why I play the wizard. Yup, Zedd in this one is pretty much like every single wizard I end up playing.

Except that he doesn't seem like a wizard in this ep. He seems a lot more like Aladdin's genie. Even without his memory, all he has to do is say "I wish I had more coins", and they just fall out of his hand. He can conjure castles out of thin air. I guess he can't will himself to youth, but Shota seemed to do it pretty effortlessly. Heck, they should set him up as the Seeker. With his powers, Richard is irrelevant.

And for that matter, there's the still the question I raised in the previous episode thread about the Keeper. What's the point of fighting him, if he does in fact have total dominion over the underworld, where everyone eventually has to go?

 

[Dog Moon]

Which brings up the question: why does the Keeper even care about the world of the living if everything is going to end up in his Domain anyway? If the world of the living became the underworld and nothing there was living, then there would never be any more children being made and at some point, the living would stop dying because there would be no more living and thus his number of dead would no longer increase. Whatever number of dead he had when he won would be the maximum amount he would ever have until the end of time.

 

[Fast Learner]

Except that he doesn't seem like a wizard in this ep. He seems a lot more like Aladdin's genie. Even without his memory, all he has to do is say "I wish I had more coins", and they just fall out of his hand. He can conjure castles out of thin air. I guess he can't will himself to youth, but Shota seemed to do it pretty effortlessly.

Richard asks him at the end of the episode if he could make himself young and he said that he could, but who would want to go through being young again?

Heck, they should set him up as the Seeker. With his powers, Richard is irrelevant.

Except that, as was shown in this episode, being the seeker totally goes to his head and he makes idiotic decisions. Having the savior power in the hands of someone with more humility seems to be a lot wiser.

 

[Felon]

Richard asks him at the end of the episode if he could make himself young and he said that he could, but who would want to go through being young again?

I missed that. I wish I didn't known he said that, since that's even more silly and ingenuous writing. Who would ever want to remain in their physical prime? Well, pretty much any non-fool would like to be able to fall down without their hip shattering. I suppose if he caught some horrible withering disease, he'd embrace it?

Except that, as was shown in this episode, being the seeker totally goes to his head and he makes idiotic decisions. Having the savior power in the hands of someone with more humility seems to be a lot wiser.

Again, that rationale is loaded with equivocation. Zed made idiotic decisions largely because of a spell afflicting his mind. And Richard has been unwise on many occassions, rashly thinking with his heart rather than his head. It's a lot easier to acquire experience and wisdom than cosmic, genie-like power.

 

[Fast Learner]

I missed that. I wish I didn't known he said that, since that's even more silly and ingenuous writing. Who would ever want to remain in their physical prime? Well, pretty much any non-fool would like to be able to fall down without their hip shattering. I suppose if he caught some horrible withering disease, he'd embrace it?

I just report the news. I completely agree.

Again, that rationale is loaded with equivocation. Zed made idiotic decisions largely because of a spell afflicting his mind. And Richard has been unwise on many occassions, rashly thinking with his heart rather than his head. It's a lot easier to acquire experience and wisdom than cosmic, genie-like power.

You don't think Zed knows himself well enough to know whether he'd be a good Seeker?

 

[Felon]

You don't think Zed knows himself well enough to know whether he'd be a good Seeker?

Well, I think that the writer(s) should know better than to write this kind of stuff. If you're going to explain why character don't avail themselves of obvious, easy solutions, don't fall back on ham-handed sophisms, such as refusing to remediate physical decrepitude because it's unnatural (people only accept decrepitude to the extent that they have no other choice) or that Zed shouldn't be the Seeker because he might make a bad decision or let the power go to his head (nobody is born with perfect judgment--certainly not Richard--and since Zed is evidentally a demigod, he has already demonstrated that vast power won't corrupt him when he's in right mind).

I would have said it's pretty stupid to paint themselves into a corner by portraying Zed as being capable of such over-the-top displays of power, but reading Wikipedia, it sounds like the novels have already gone pretty Dragonball. There's talk of Zed being able to level mountains and Richard killing an army of soldiers with a small blade. Not sure how you challenge characters like that, but I guess Goodkind finds a way.