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[theskyexists]

I know that costuming has gotta be used as shorthand for the audience and some things have gotta be recognised but I feel like if you’re going to feature humanoids which are not human and humans from the far future - it’s a lost opportunity not to can draw on an absolute myriad of styles to signal how these people are Different.

go back twenty years and you see definite and serious differences in fashion and hair (the hair! specifically - you can always tell what year the portrayal of the 61 century hails from by the hair).

there are So Many ridiculous things to draw from just HUMAN history. I’m thinking of Angstrom and the other guy - so yeah the whole joke is that they’re NOT human when they look it - but surely it would make sense that they don’t look exactly like a 2018 man and woman style-wise?

wouldn’t it make sense to do something to them that makes them look just so slightly off?

you don’t even need to think outside of the box alien, you can just go back in time and grab a perfectly normal out of place human ‘long hair, slicked back as though wet/wigs/everybody is covered in tattoos/green hair that glows a bit/everybody is wrapped up hella tight/everybody’s wearing flared jeans’ from idk when and use it to signal alien

[theskyexists]

I just watched the first scene of the Shannara Chronicles and HOLY FUCK THE ADRENALINE HOLY MOLY WHAT THE

is this a sign that my love of epic journey fantasy will always make my heart pound even if my brain ticks so hummingly along to the always intriguing sci-fi?

HOLY FUCK THAT WAS GOOD THOUGH!!!!!

ok so it’s fantasy wrapped up in a sci-fi backstory? from the trailer? WHAT A COOL TRAILER

all these tropes are so beautifully executed??

NOW GIVE ME ANOTHER GIRL OR WOMAN AS MAIN CHARACTER

also everybody wears such beautiful clothes.

Will is a healer!! YES!!! please let him stay a healer!!!

how the fuc didshe get up on that giant stone griffin

will just lost all his supplies and his horse but he’s like fuck that horse let’s go after the girl who saved me bc clearly she’ll save my ass good call Will

this show is fucking gorgeous tho

Will is like wtf is happening. Also Eritrea is so damn sketchy ahaha.

well shit did the most powerful demon just escape first? bc if that is not the most powerful demon we’re in even deeper shit

ok well shit. Will is not going to stay a healer. i hate that a little.

so that explains why Flynn (?) the boyfriend gets killed by Amberly (??) changeling magicks

so many landscapes in so little time

ok so the king wants the chosen and royal family safe but?? he doesn’t mobilise the army as he was advised to?

it’s the changeling. ah Flynn or whatever his name is is gonna die by the hand of who he loves :(

and the elcryss is gonna be even worse off? what can the changeling do? Why are the Chosen not stationed around the tree 24/7 like they’re supposed to?

also i didn’t realise but Amberly running away was actually running away from the call of heroism, the call of the Elcryss. that wasn’t really clear with a shot like Amberly standing heroically on the stone griffin. Like, I thought that was the start of her journey but she just had a trip outside stole a girl’s bread and horse and now I think she’s coming back. Not great storytelling

Flynn ded for sure. oh so that’s what the changeling is gonna do assasinate all the Chosen. But Amberly ran away so she doesn’t get stabbed naice. so maybe that was the right thing to do after all

yeaaaaa shouldn’t have told your people that demons are fucking fairytales eh king comin to bite you in the ass

Pyree was like oh hi Amberly let me just knock you out with a troll mask on

ok but i don’t get the timeline of this show like. When was the War? 30 years ago? because that’s when the druid met Will’s dad and defeated evil and stuff. that doesn’t seem quite long enough for demons to turn into folklore. or did he just wake up for a bit of his druid’s sleep and then go back ?

ohhh come ON not a yeah she’s naked bathing in a waterfall. ok that’s ok i mean he slipped and fell that’s ok

Pyree is gonna die from flying demon. At this rate demons are gonna rip em to shreds before they’ve even got everybody up to speed

called it

of course pyree is gonna die when they’ve just had a nice chat about love and shit horrible way to die fuck

don’t like this epic fantasy trope at all. what with every maternal figure dying to cause grief to the mains.

That was the end? that was the end of the episode.