Let me start by saying that I'm a big fan of fantasy shows and I always tend to watch them with good eyes. So it was with season one. Solid, engaging and well produced.
Season two was just a mess. I don't know why is so hard for fantasy shows to keep up the good quality from early seasons. Maybe a schedule thing? Like they need to release as fast as possible, I don't know.
I'll start with the positives since is a shorter list. Good acting from most of the cast, good production (visual effects, figurine, different scenarios) and thats pretty much about it.
Now with the negatives: 1 - No chemestry between the protagonists: Alina and Mal gotta be the worst love couple ever. Besides not having a single molecule of chemestry between the actors, the writting around them was so cheesy with poor lines, a back and forth decision making and a no sense conclusion. Like finally they can be together but Mal suddenly has no motives to stay anymore? What in the actual fudge? Halfway to season 2 I was skiping their scenes like crazy. So boring and annoying.
2 - The story was all over the place: I'm almost 100% sure that season 2 was written by an 11 years old. No consistency, useless scenes with no credible events, at least in how they were directed. Here are some of my nitpicks: A) The prison arc with Mathias dragged for way too long. Besides, why is suddenly the Irish Villian became the boss of the prison being actually a prosioner himself? So silly. B) The Darkling starts the season weakened, suffering, and stays like the same the whole time, like that made no difference at all. C) The challenge involving the stag in season 1 was very cool and the one with the serpent sea ended in a 10min useless bad made scene. D) The magic system is not very well explained and too imbalanced. That is a full plate for writters to just come up with childish scenes that instead of hyping the audience up just annoys them. E) I'll just stop or else we're going to be here for a while.
3 - Too many arcs going: this season had so much going on in different places that they had to rush it towards the end, making all travels almost instantaneous.
4 - Poor fight coreography: thats it.
Well, I don't think I'm coming back for next season. Only if they release a Crow spin off.
Season two was just a mess. I don't know why is so hard for fantasy shows to keep up the good quality from early seasons. Maybe a schedule thing? Like they need to release as fast as possible, I don't know.
I'll start with the positives since is a shorter list. Good acting from most of the cast, good production (visual effects, figurine, different scenarios) and thats pretty much about it.
Now with the negatives: 1 - No chemestry between the protagonists: Alina and Mal gotta be the worst love couple ever. Besides not having a single molecule of chemestry between the actors, the writting around them was so cheesy with poor lines, a back and forth decision making and a no sense conclusion. Like finally they can be together but Mal suddenly has no motives to stay anymore? What in the actual fudge? Halfway to season 2 I was skiping their scenes like crazy. So boring and annoying.
2 - The story was all over the place: I'm almost 100% sure that season 2 was written by an 11 years old. No consistency, useless scenes with no credible events, at least in how they were directed. Here are some of my nitpicks: A) The prison arc with Mathias dragged for way too long. Besides, why is suddenly the Irish Villian became the boss of the prison being actually a prosioner himself? So silly. B) The Darkling starts the season weakened, suffering, and stays like the same the whole time, like that made no difference at all. C) The challenge involving the stag in season 1 was very cool and the one with the serpent sea ended in a 10min useless bad made scene. D) The magic system is not very well explained and too imbalanced. That is a full plate for writters to just come up with childish scenes that instead of hyping the audience up just annoys them. E) I'll just stop or else we're going to be here for a while.
3 - Too many arcs going: this season had so much going on in different places that they had to rush it towards the end, making all travels almost instantaneous.
4 - Poor fight coreography: thats it.
Well, I don't think I'm coming back for next season. Only if they release a Crow spin off.