Legend of the Seeker TV Show...

...which is supposed to be based on the Terry Goodkind series, however it seems more like it was inspired by some folks who saw these books on the shelf with some interesting dustcovers, yet only skimmed the books themselves.

You know, how the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is "Based on True Events", yet if you look at the Ed Gein story, which is the true event, there's no skin-mask wearing psycho chasing teens in panties through a macabre farm of cannibalism. Gotta love word play, dontcha?

Anyhow, it's not like I'm a fan of Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, although I might have to give it a second look, one of these days, but I almost feel sorry for the guy and wonder how he feels about the TV series. It is definitely more in the Hercules and Xena vein of fantasy, with the production values only modestly okay.

The casting is so-so, as Richard is a smidge too young, but Zedd is, in my view, pretty spot on and Kahlan's actress, Bridget Regan, is quite a pleasant sight to see. Overall the show is okay, it'd make for pretty okay fantasy, too, but it's not really that Sword of Truth-ish and I find it annoying.

Hopefully it'll get better, but I sort of doubt it, odds are it'll go the episodic route of Hercules, Xena, and Beastmaster, with a consistent metaplot, yet weak execution with sporadic moments of "Hey, that's cool."

Well, hopefully George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series will be a glorious HBO production that'll send geek-gasms through the intertubes.