Willow - Disney+

I was curious how well it plays with the original flick, and honestly (apart from the excellent score on the film) the dialog and acting is pretty much 1:1 and they both seem on par.

The original film was never really that serious. It was never a Lord of the Rings for example.

So it does seem to maintain the same rather silly humorous dialog/acting that was in the original and fits in fairly well.

It's worth re-watching the original flick as they've updated it to 4K.

I'm wondering if they're going to say "Peck"... might be a bit too offensive these days 🤣

Yeah so Episode 4 wasn't great/boring and the constant one-liners are starting to grate with me too. The zoomer agenda stuff is also repeated a bit incessantly, plus the main cast constantly making modern quips.

Won't surprise me if they pull out their mobile phones in the next one.

And then there's this...

Surely if denim is available in the world, everyone would be wearing it? :)

So .. it started out ok.. but it's starting to look a bit like Xena Warrior Princess budget-wise, despite some elements of quality effects sparingly tossed in.

What was the thing Boorman was accusing Kit of stealing from him in Episode 4? Was it the armour power thing?

But then he suddenly had that in the final scene, and no explanation of why he thought he lost it, or how he found it again?

Elora's hair has turned red (again)?! Not just the roots, as in the full length of hair changed from blonde to red in, what, a day ?

EDIT: ok so I read up a bit.. apparently the "magick" is turning it back to the original red 🙄

"If Ed Wood did a Disney series..."

Unfortunately there won't be a Val Kilmer appearance (unless possibly digital)

Very sad 😪

The first and last episodes were probably the best alright.

I think it's more to do with the treatment of an IP that would have been a large part of the childhood of many Gen X'ers and what the expectations were for it, though granted the original film was "light" with comedic/childish elements and probably more on par with Legend or other similar films of the time, rather than an epic like Star Wars.

If it were an entirely original IP it probably would have fared far better.

I’m really enjoying the show but disappointed with some of the language like having the “hots” for someone (plenty of ways of saying that is neither too old fashioned or too modern) and that they have started using profanity.

The costumes on the two woodcutters were very out of place and it had me thinking that Elora had stepped into a magical place and the that women were illusions by beings trying to interact with Elora and teach her something. Odd choice of clothes. I did not recognise Hannah Washington at all.

Was that General Kael that appeared to Jade? I thought at first that perhaps Kael had indeed killed her family around the time of the movie and that she was a bit older than Elora and Kit. Then I remembered thayt she had said the family was killed trying to get to Mother’s Gate and inside the barrier - which is after Kael dies. I hope they explain this.

I'm surprised at the comments in that article.. a lot of people seemed to like it (which is baffling)

Apart from the first couple of episodes which seemed pretty good, it just gradually got irritating

A lot of commenters on tvline seem very positive about everything. Going by them shows like Star Trek Discovery are some of the greatest shows ever.

Think there may be someone in denial

That picture kinda sums up one of the complaints about the show. He had a flamethrower for that scene that came out of nowhere and went back there right after, never to be seen again.