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Just saw the first episode of the second season. so far it is great! seems like it is already 10X as intence as the last season

No idea what this series is about.

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It's a Saturday Afternoon live action kids show!

I've seen the first series Sandy. Wasn't too taken with it. I expected it to take itself a little more seriously. Judged on it's own merits, I suppose it's alright

For all you others, itt's directed by Sam Raimi.

It's a classic story...
Set in a middle age world where sorcery is known. The world is ruled by a totalitarian warlord. A young hero is burdened with a responsibility that he knew nothing about and didn't want; it is his destiny to defeat the bad guy and bring peace to the land.
To complete his task, the young, inexperienced, but righteously minded hero is accompanied by an elderly, wise, advisory wizard type and an attractive, conoisseur of the land, busty wench - who he can't romp with, for some reason, until the final act is over.
The hero faces many dangers on his journey to face the bad guy, encounters many stuggles and strange lands. The culmination of the experiences builds him towards the hero he needs to be, in order to fulfill his destiny.

Apparantly, the books are quite entertaining and the characters, especially the lead, Richard, is fleshed out a bit more. In the TV series, he's your typical bold, brainless hero type. The type who flys into action with no plan at the mildest hint of foul play going on. He doesn't listen to the smarter, wiser people in his group (everyone else) before leaping uninformed into danger and only learns a token lesson at the end, after he miraculously saves the day, despite no forward planning.
The series definitely aims at a PG audience rather than a teen/adult demographic, which I'm lead to believe the books target. The TV appeals to the person in us who wants to be able to split the world into good and bad, with clear distinction.

For what it is, I found series one quite enjoyable. It's completely daft. The lead character would get himself killed several times over in the first act of every episode, if the drama was aiming to be more serious. The companion characters would be dejected by fate's whimsical nature if they had such a simple-minded, headstrong bonehead with a hero complex as their savior. It's not trying to be clever though. It's just trying to be fun. It's openly and unashamably just a fun good versus evil tale with simple morality

Production is similar to the old Hercules and Xena shows, But obviously a bit more modern. Not surprising I suppose considering the names behind the product. I kind of expected more from the series though, in terms of special effects and story.

It's fun, but I'll be cautionately tuning into the first episode of the second series.

yeah apparently Richard is becoming more like the book. it is like he is becoming the bad guy now.