Well, took me a year, but I finally went through the whole of season 2 of the Shannara Chronicles. Was a bit hard to get through since I pretty much lost interest in it. Really, they divert so much from the books that I don't know what to do with it. And really, it was gonna be hard to do the original trilogy as it is a generational gap between each book. So what do you do? You take bits and pieces from every book and mash it together.
It takes one year after the first season and there is still chaos in the four lands. The elves are on the brink of civil war between the Crimson and the normal elves. I think the crimson are inspired by the military organisation the Federation from the Heritage of Shannara-series. I think at least. The traveller girl is together with Cogline, the ex-druid that had a larger role in that series as well, and gets visions from the tree-girl and sets out to find Will. Will is back in Storlock healing people and meets this girl that seems to be the daughter of Allanaon, which is a story beat from the book First King of Shannara when a woman thought she was the daughter of a druid, in that case Bremen, Allanons mentor. In that case she wasn't since it was thought she was actually conceived by a minon of the Warlock Lord. Allanon meanwhile is hunting the seer from the first season that have been looking for the codex in order to resurrect the Warlock Lord. That feels like the story beat from Wishsong of Shannara.
And then it's betrayals here and there, blood squirting all over the screen and many dead corpses. They even have a giant white spider *shudder*. We also travel back in time so we can take some scenes from the sword of Shannara with Will's father Shea Ohmsford... I though Shea was his grandfather? And we have royal weddings between the elves and the human kingdom of Leah? What happened with Tyrsis? And here comes Garet Jax, the weapon master from Wishsong of Shannara... and he survives the whole show even though his arc is to die against the most dangerous creature in battle to show his abilities? And Will dies fighting the resurrected Warlock lord but somehow turns up in a field of furies circling over him and then to be continue shows up. There is no third season.
As noted, a hodgepodge of story beats with a lot of violence. Of course the original books didn't shy away from killing people, even main characters, but there is something special about the Warlock Lord ripping the head off the commander of the Crimson that have been torturing and killing people through the whole season. It really couldn't keep my interest. I would have liked seeing a season 3 just to see what they would have done to keep this story going, but I would prefer a redo and closer to the books. It looked a bit cheap at times, not a lot of actors and even though it was 2 000 years since the nuclear war, there seems to be a lot of modern housing and such.
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