Willow

Chi84

Chi84

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MickeyMouse10 said:
They're easy to find on Youtube.

If you like it than that's good for you, but I think it's awful. It's especially bad when you see something you love made into garbage (Live Action Remakes, Hocus Pocus, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, A Christmas Story, etc).
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What surprises me is how you can conclude that a show is “awful” and make arguments based on characters and storyline solely on 5 minutes of viewing and someone else’s supposed reviews. It’s certainly your right to post whatever you like, but it doesn’t seem you have a sufficient basis to make your opinion persuasive.
 
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doctornick

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Chi84 said:
I saw the series and I didn’t get that at all. There is one guy who comes off kind of goofy but he ends up saving the others more than once. What reviews did you read?
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Tony Revolori's character is the one that changes the most (and for the better) throughout the series. And then sacrifices himself at the end. I thought the show was pretty balanced among the genders in terms of who did what.
 
Chi84

Chi84

Premium Member
doctornick said:
Tony Revolori's character is the one that changes the most (and for the better) throughout the series. And then sacrifices himself at the end. I thought the show was pretty balanced among the genders in terms of who did what.
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I did too. I’m glad I stuck with it because I thought it got much better after the first couple of episodes.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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I watched the whole thing, because I wanted to like it.

It was poorly written, poorly filmed, poorly wardrobed, poorly acted, poorly edited, and poorly scored.

The show upset me even more because it HAD moments of greatness... Little glimmers of what could have been... But then they were overshadowed by all the faults. I recall the scenes in the sea being kinda cool... But they ruined it with rushed, unwarranted development and a bad montage sequence. A couple of the fight scenes in the final eppy were awesome (I recall one with flashing lights in a hall being really cool) that we're bogged down by surrounding nonsensical actions by characters.

I could go on and on it was so thick with bad stuff. Shortsighted and misguided vision from people who aren't quite good at what they're doing.
 
Chi84

Chi84

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MoonRakerSCM said:
I watched the whole thing, because I wanted to like it.

It was poorly written, poorly filmed, poorly wardrobed, poorly acted, poorly edited, and poorly scored.

The show upset me even more because it HAD moments of greatness... Little glimmers of what could have been... But then they were overshadowed by all the faults. I recall the scenes in the sea being kinda cool... But they ruined it with rushed, unwarranted development and a bad montage sequence. A couple of the fight scenes in the final eppy were awesome (I recall one with flashing lights in a hall being really cool) that we're bogged down by surrounding nonsensical actions by characters.

I could go on and on it was so thick with bad stuff. Shortsighted and misguided vision from people who aren't quite good at what they're doing.
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I thought it was pretty good for light entertainment but I can certainly appreciate some of what you’re saying.
 
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DCBaker

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Thread from the creator of the Willow series - lots of words here, but basically with the support of Lucasfilm and Disney, Volume II has already been written/developed. Due to the slow down of production of content, Willow wouln't resume filming in the next 12 months and the decision was made to release the main cast so they could join other series if they had the opportunity.

 
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MoonRakerSCM

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Wendy Pleakley said:
Let's call a spade a spade.

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Labelling and namecalling is against the rules on here. Hopefully mods will deal with it.

Fascinating that what Mickey was getting at was how the actresses CAN'T sword fight... It's because the fight choreography in the show was downright abysmal. It's the same as Disney's swordfighting in their star wars productions... No care about actual swordsmanship, just flail around with no connection to real world style or techniques. Stupid moves that would get them killed in an actual sword fight.

It comes back to what I was saying, it was poorly made. I forgot to add 'poorly choreographed' to my list earlier.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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Chi84 said:
I thought it was pretty good for light entertainment but I can certainly appreciate some of what you’re saying.
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For sure, but I started getting bogged down in the flaws. Asking myself 'how did that person get there?', 'why did they do that?', 'that's literally the opposite of what they just said' etc...

It almost seemed like it had no core vision... Is it catering to 80s fantasy or modern audiences etc.?... And was muddled at the core and that bled out into every aspect of it.

Personally I think it's a deeper issue with Hollywood/TV right now spurred by the COVID pause... People making these things aren't too great at their craft.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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Gah.

Like the brownies... They wanted the memberberries, but they handled it so stupidly. The premise, the reason, the sequence itself. All sloppy, forced, and not well thought out beyond 'Yeah, Willow can see his brownie friend again!'
 
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DKampy

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MoonRakerSCM said:
Personally I think it's a deeper issue with Hollywood/TV right now spurred by the COVID pause... People making these things aren't too great at their craft.
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There is no deeper issue with Hollywood…there is some great stuff out there as well as some not so great stuff…just Like there was in the days before Covid….depends on what you watch…I am not going to list the stuff that is great as this is not the thread for that
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DCBaker said:
Thread from the creator of the Willow series - lots of words here, but basically with the support of Lucasfilm and Disney, Volume II has already been written/developed. Due to the slow down of production of content, Willow wouln't resume filming in the next 12 months and the decision was made to release the main cast so they could join other series if they had the opportunity.

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I can see how it was misconstrued as being cancelled when its just been put on the back burner. So cool we may get a season 2 in the future.
 
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doctornick

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Disney Irish said:
I can see how it was misconstrued as being cancelled when its just been put on the back burner. So cool we may get a season 2 in the future.
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It makes me hopeful we could get a season someday but I'm not holding my breath. Things that are paused like this virtually never come back.

I guess maybe if a ton of people start watching the past season and/or movie a lot on D+ maybe that would inspire them to greenlight another season.
 
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networkpro

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